https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/stanford/Recent content in Stanford on LocodigitalHugoen-USSun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/google-turns-28-history-pagerank-founding/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/google-turns-28-history-pagerank-founding/<p>Today, 27 September 2026, Google turns 28. Not on its official incorporation date (4 September 1998), but on the date the company itself has celebrated since 2006 — originally chosen to mark a record for the number of pages indexed on the web. It is a distinction that says a lot about how Google thinks: less about paperwork, more about real milestones.</p> <h2>It all starts with a crawler called BackRub</h2> <p>In 1995, Larry Page arrived at Stanford to visit its Computer Science doctoral programme. His campus guide was Sergey Brin, a year ahead in the same programme. The two clashed at first — but by 1996 they were working together on a research project about how to rank web pages by relevance.</p>