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The origin of GEOGLE
1998, two rebellious college students-Page and Brin-graduated from Stanford University in the United States and began to conduct academic research on Internet search. These are two complete geniuses. At that time, the industry's understanding of the Internet search function was that the higher the frequency of a keyword in a document, the more prominent the ranking position of the document in the search results. Brin and Page have another view. They believe that the factors that determine the position of a document in search results are the frequency of a document appearing in other web pages and the credibility of these web pages, while the popularity and quality of a web page among the audience are the decisive factors.

The two college graduates soon found that their results query method was better than any other search method. Once, their department counselor invited them to have breakfast with AndreasBechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun, on the campus of Stanford University. The two college students demonstrated their search process to Bechtolsheim. Halfway through the presentation, Bechtolsheim interrupted them and wrote a check for $654.38 million to Google.

However, at this time, another problem appeared: Google has no bank account yet. There is not even a Google company. At that time, they had not decided to set up a company. After the check stayed in the drawer for several weeks, they began to seriously consider all this.

Later, they raised more funds. By the end of June 1999, Google had raised $3 million in start-up funds from Sequoia Investment Company and KleinerPerkinsCaufield&byers Company, plus investment from Stanford University and individual investors. Three months later, the Google website was officially opened. And then it got out of hand