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Sergey Brin

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Sergey Brin · Economics & Business

What

Co-founder of Google

When

1973, Moscow, Soviet Union (Russia)

Where

United States

Founded
GoogleGoogle1998
Biography

Sergey Brin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Co-founder of Google

How & why

Sergey Brin co-founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page, developing the PageRank algorithm that ranked web pages by their link structure and reshaped how the world searches for information. His family emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1979 to escape antisemitic persecution, and Brin is Jewish. Google grew into one of the most influential technology companies in history.

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Source: Search engine innovation

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Contributions & Sources

Co-founder of Google

1998

Source: Search engine innovation