Person Of The Year

The person of the year should go to Sergey Brin who is the co-founder of Google. Google is internet search engine that holds billions of different websites to choose from. Created in 1998 Google changed the world. Google has changed and shaped the world we live in today, people around the world use Google for their main search engine. The name “Google" is intended to be similar to "googol". "Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Sergey Mihailovich Brin is the co-founder of Google, and is now the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at 11 billion US dollars. Born 1973 in Russia to a Jewish family. In 1979 Brin Moved to America with his family where his father worked as a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, and his mother working as a specialist at NASA. Brin had an interest in computers at an early age, and he received his first computer, a Commodore 64, from his father for his 9th birthday.

Sergey had a natural talent for mathematics and computing was soon apparent, surprising a teacher by submitting a project printed from a computer, at a time before computers were usual. Brin also gives credit for his success to having attended Montessori schools. In 1990, after he finished high school, Brin enrolled in the University of Maryland to study Computer Science and Mathematics, receiving his Bachelors of Science in 1993 with high honors. After graduating he received a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, which he used to study a masters degree in Computer Science at Stanford University, and completing it ahead of schedule in august 1995.  While in Stanford Brin met Larry Page (second co-founder of google) Although the two at first didn’t hit it off, they soon found a common interest in data-mining and retrieving relevant information from large data sets in which the two collaborated on a paper titled “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine,” which has today become the tenth most accessed scholarly paper at Stanford.

Soon after they started working on a project that later became the Google search engine. After trying to sell the idea failed, they wrote up a business plan and brought in a total original investment of almost $1 million to start their own company.. In 1996, the first version of Google was launched on Stanford's servers.In 1998 they officially opened up for business working out of a garage in Menlo Park, California.Brin and Page founded their company and officially named it Google, Inc. There were a bunch of other search engines, but the paper that Brin and Page had worked on at Stanford contained the conceptual foundation which set Google apart from the competition at that time. The idea of ranking search results by the number of times each site had been linked.Brin figured that if a site was linked on a number of other sites, then it was more likely than not a relevant search item and thus should be ranked higher than others. In 1999 Brin and Page launched their search engine on the internet. Since that time, it has continued to rise in popularity and mainstream. The company grew so quickly and gained so many employees’ office relocations were made due to lack of space, with Google Inc. finally settled in its current place at Mountain View, California. 

Over the next few years lead by Larry and Sergey Google made many innovations and added to its list of products and employee’s (nearly 5000 by 2006). By October 2004 Google announced their first quarterly results as a public offered company, with record revenues of $805.9 million. As of 2005 Brin has been estimated to be worth $11 billion US dollars and is sixteenth in Forbes 400 list and ranked the 2nd richest American under the age of 40.