Darwinian Web
Adam Green's thoughts on the evolution of the Internet

Google academic papers

Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2005 at 9:02 PM (permalink)

The footnotes to Chapter 2 of "The Search" cited a 1998 paper, "The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine," by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. It described the early Google architecture and their plans for it. It's pretty readable, and provides an interest glimpse of their views before they dreamed of controlling the world from their own 767 continually circling the globe at 40,000 feet.

A little research revealed a set of additional papers by Brin and Page, or in some cases one of them along with other co-authors. Someday these papers may provide a historian of science with some valuable source material. I wonder if they saved their early emails?

I also came across Sergey's home page from Stanford circa 1998, where I found this adorable picture of him.