Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created a search engine called Backrub which scanned "back links" to specific web pages which proved to be very popular. The founder of Yahoo!, David Filo convinced them to build their own engine and market it themselves which they did to move out of their dorm at Stanford to where they are now. Redhat signed on as an early contributor partly due to all of Google was running on thousands of Linux servers. Now many other engines use Google data including Yahoo!, AltaVista and others. BTW Google does use other data from another engine specifically for Google Web Directory: The DMOZ Open Directory Project or DMOZ ODP found here http://www.dmoz.org/.
To see where Google may be going in the future then see here http://labs.google.com/
Peter Kaulback
Harold B. wrote:
Hello again,
I once asked the group what Bill Gates did that made Microsoft the giant it is, that so many other very capable computer (and business) people didn't do. Your answer was basically, "He had an idea; it all starts with an idea." --- I'd like to ask the same question regarding Google. I remember when Yahoo was the rage among search engines. What is it that Google did that made it become a verb in our languages? --- Harold
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