Backkrubs: Not Always Comfortable
December 23, 2019
I spotted Scott Hassan’s name in “Google Co-Founder Faces Lawsuit from Wife Amid Divorce Call.” The write up digs into some business dealings of one of the people who worked on the search engine code for what is now known as the great and wonderful Google. Mr. Hassan is not mentioned in the “Larry Page and Sergey Brin” explanation of how the world’s greatest online ad agency began. There was another person involved in the wild and thrilling adventure — Alan Steremberg. Depending on the source, these Backrubbers were either cranking out code or contributing to the recycled methods that became the world’s largest online advertising agency. Does this matter? No, because no one cares. With inputs from different people and inspirations from AltaVista and models like CLEVER, the myth of individuals laboring in a garage is what seems to be true. Before Google, there was nothing. Time for Foosball and then a scooter ride in the hall of Building 43 to Abidijan. Innovative.
Stephen E Arnold, December 23, 2019
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