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=__Larry Page__= Larry Page may be the most influential person on the Internet. He, together with Sergey Brin as students at Stanford University, discovered the search enigine Google September 4th of 1998. Google Inc**.** is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. The company is running thousands of servers worldwide, which processes millions of search requests each day and about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour.

Larry Page was born into a Jewish family on March 26th 1973 in Lansing Michigan. Pages parents were computer science professors at the Michigan State University and often his house was a mess, Page is quoted as saying that "their house was usually a mess, with computers and //Popular Science// magazines all over the place." His attraction to computers started when he was six years old when he got to play with the "stuff" laying around the house. Page later attended college at the University of Michigan and Stanford, where he got his big break.

Larry Page enrolled in Stanford University in the Ph.D. program in Computer Sciences. Page considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, and his supervisor Terry Winograd encouraged him to go along with this idea. Page was first to figure out the problem of which web pages link to a given page. This research project was named project "Backrub". During this project Page was joined by his later co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin. Brin and Page originally met in March, 1995, during a spring orientation of new computer science Ph.D. candidates. Brin, who had already been in the program for two years, was assigned to show some students, including Page, around campus, and they later became good friends and Millionaires. Page and Brin had figured out that the entire web was loosely based on the premise of citation. If the two Ph.D. students could create a method to count and qualify on the web would become a more valuabe place to the people. And in August of 1996 Page and Brin had succecssfully built a search engine for the internet that all people could use. Although it was produced in 1996 by the founders it was not released to the public until September 4th 1998. The initial version of Google was made available for Stanford students and faculty only, this is still on the Stanford University Web site.

In 2000, Google earned a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for technical achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards. The World Economic Forum named Page as a Global Leader for Tomorrow and the X PRIZE chose Page as a trustee for their board. The X PRIZE was a space competition in which the X PRIZE Foundation offered a $10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. Larry Page also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan on May 2, 2009 during the commencement ceremony exercises of the class of 2009. media type="youtube" key="PmSdy_9blB4" height="344" width="425" align="right" Larry Page made a tremendous impact on the lifes of others, and society with his findings and creation of Google. He, along with Brin, have created the most popular search engine on the web today, and have advanced our technology on the internet with their dedication to computer science. But Larry and Sergey are not going to settle for just Google, they are going beyond that. Google and Virgin have came together to create maybe the most important project of our age. This project is Project Virgle. Project Virgle is the first Human Settlement on the Planet Mars, and they plan on putting people up on that settlement in the next Twenty years or so. This project is bigger then Google was and is the biggest project ever undertaken at Virgin and Google Industries.