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The founding of Google

The world's most popular search engine was launched in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PHD students from Stanford University in California.

The world's most popular search engine was launched in September 1998 by two PHD students from Stanford University in California. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had an idea that would revolutionise the internet and create one of the world's most valuable companies. Farhana Haider has been speaking to Tamara Munzner a computer scientist who was at Stanford with the two founders of Google.

Photo Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 2003. Credit Getty.

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