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**Sergey Brin**
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born on August 21, 1971. He is from Moscow and he is Jewish. Brin immigrated to the United States when he was only six years old because his father wanted a better life for his family.

**Education**
He decided to follow his father and grad-fathers footsteps. Brin got a degree at University of Maryland. He studied mathematics, and computer science. When Brin graduated from University of Maryland he moved to Stanford to get a Ph.D in computer science. While at Sanford he met Larry Page they soon became good friends. Brin and Page created an algorithm which is computer tasks. A popular search engine at the time was Hot Bot. It was difficult to find information because of the technology at the time. They decided to create a search tool to find the most revelent web page first.

Personal Life
In May 2007 Sergey Brin married Anne Wojcicki. They got married at the Bahamas. Anne is a biotech analyst. She graduated from Yale University in 1996. She earned a B.S. in biotech. Brins mother "Eugenia" was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The University of Maryland decided to donate money to Eugenia to help her with her disease.

=Larry Page= Lawrence "Larry" Page was born on March 26, 1973. He is born in East Lansing Michigan. His dad Carl Victor Page got a Ph.D in computer science in 1965 at Michigan State and his mother Gloria taught computer programing.

**Education**
Larry Page attended a Montessori School. He was a honor student while attending University of Michigan. He decided to attend a solar car team which was a program at his school. He later got a Ph.D in computer science at Standford University. This is where he met Sergey Brin.

**Personal Life**
Larry Page is married to Lucinda Southworth. They got married at Necker Island in 2007. Lucinda's sister is a research scientist. Her sister is a model and an actress Carrie Southworth.

=**Search Engine**= The name of the search engine was called "Backrub" ,but they later changed it to "PageRank" which was named after Larry Page. Stanford University heard about PageRank and they let them try the search engine out. As the search engine grew in popularity at the school it needed more serves to process the web site. In 1998 there was 10,000 searches daily.

=**Google**= Google was created in Janurary 1996 by Sergey brin and Larry Page. Google's name was misspelled. It was supposed to be called "googol". Googol refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Today Google is the most popular search engine and there headquarters is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, United States. It is estimated that Google runs on one million servers in data centers world wide. Google did not go public until August 19, 2004. As of November 17th, 2011, Google's stock value averages around $595. Within the next 20 years, Google plans to give one million dollars or more to charities benefiting poverty, the enviornment, and energy.

=Awards and Honors= Google has recieved many awards for their success. PC Magazine has named Google as one of th Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines. Google has been awarded the Technical Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development, a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for technical achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards. Larry page and Sergey Brin were named as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. = **Larry Page and Sergey Brin**=

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