What did Sergey Brin invent?

Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Google, one of the most successful websites on the Internet, with Larry Page.

Sergey and Larry Page began working on Google a new type of search technology from Page’s dorm room.

They leveraged Web users’ own ranking abilities by tracking each site’s “backing links”—that is, the number of other pages linked to them while at Stanford University.

Brin and Page began receiving outside funding in mid-1998, eventually raising $1 million from investors and family and friends.

They named their updated search engine Google—a misspelling of the originally planned name, googol—and established the corporation Google Inc.

Brin was appointed president of technology at Google, and by mid-1999, when the search engine received $25 million in venture capital funding, it was processing 500,000 queries per day.

By 2004, users were visiting the site 200 million times per day roughly 138,000 queries per minute

In August 2015, Google was reorganized as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., a newly formed holding company led by Brin.

Sergey left the position in December 2019, but remained on Alphabet’s board of directors.