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Sergey Brin expressed interest in the Internet very early on in his studies at Stanford. He authored and co-authored various papers on data-mining and pattern extraction. He also wrote software to ease the process of putting scientific papers often written in TeX, a text processing language, into HTML form, as well as a website for film ratings.

The defining moment for Sergey, however, was when he met future co-president of Google, Larry Page. According to Google lore, Page and Brin "were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995."[4] They soon found a common interest: retrieving relevant information from large data sets. Together, the pair authored what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine."[5] The paper has since gone on to become the tenth most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University.
My Analysis:- When any business starts there is hardly any vision statement clear. Now looking at the developments like takeover of Double Click Google has promulgated that it is Media company.
Kudos!! Google
It has brought Paradigm shift in the approach.
Yes Microsoft crying Foul for the Growth of Google.
"Survival for the Fittest" Is good quote to mention at this moment.
Thanks
Praveen Pandey