S18·E43 The Google Boys

In the late 1990s, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were two ordinary Ph.D. students at Stanford University—ordinary, that is, until they came up with one extraordinary idea. In this inspiring program, Biography chronicles the amazing story behind the creation of Google, today the world’s preeminent Internet search engine. From a simple desire to clear up and clarify the burgeoning clutter of a rapidly growing World Wide Web, to a multibillion-dollar company which has rendered all other search engines virtually obsolete, this is the definitive account of Page and Brin’s revolutionary brainchild. Discover how the creators saw an opportunity to separate themselves from the competition by inventing a process for taking search results to the fore of importance and reliability and find out how their unique approach to advertising caused their profits to skyrocket at the turn of the twenty-first century.