Google Founded

SEP 27 2019 · 12:00

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Stanford PhD students, incorporate Google on 4 September 1998 — Andy Bechtolsheim writes a $100,000 check before they even have a bank account. Their PageRank algorithm, ranking pages by weighted inbound links, is so much better than rivals that Google becomes the most-used search engine ever within a few years.