This photo shows Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page at the 2004

Frankfurt Book Fair, preparing to unveil their new Google Print project.

John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images

7 Sergey Brin and Larry Page 7

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

respectively, (b. Aug. 21, 1973, Moscow, U.S.S.R. [now Russia]);

(b. March 26, 1973, East Lansing, Mich., U.S.)

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n Aug. 19, 2004, Sergey Brin and Larry Page went

from being promising computer science graduate

students to multibillionaire technology mavens when

Google , Inc., the online search engine company they

had founded in 1998, issued its much-anticipated initial

public offering (IPO). By creating the easy-to-use hyper-

text search engine Google, one of the most successful

applications in the history of the Internet, Brin and Page

had provided World Wide Web browsing at its simplest