Googles Possible Italian Roots
June 12, 2014
The article on Bloomberg titled Meet the Italian Who Beat Google to Web Search—and Gave It Away discusses the possible Italian roots of Google. The article relates the story of a conference in California with a particular talk given. Massimo Marchiori unveiled his Internet search engine, with none other than Larry Page in the audience. The article states,
“Marchiori’s project was called Hyper Search, a system able to scan the Web with a level of accuracy never seen before. Hyper Search was based on an innovative algorithm many developers consider to be an inspiration for PageRank, Google’s magic formula that sorts Web pages by counting the number and quality of links to each from around the Internet… “When I finished my presentation, a gentle boy approached me saying he found it very interesting,” Marchiori says in a phone interview.”
Page promised to “develop” Marchiori’s ideas further, and was later granted $100,000 to pursue Google, while Marchiori’s project was passed over by another grant in Italy. Yet Marchiori claims he bears Page no ill will for his astronomical success, even crediting Page and Sergey with the ability to make a reality out of an idea. Marchiori is not a computer-science and mathematics professor at the University of Padua, Italy.
Chelsea Kerwin, June 12, 2014
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Googles Possible Italian Roots : Stephen E. Arnold @ Beyond Search