Two graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin came together to work on a research project at Stanford University 's computer science department. At the time they began working together in 1995, they looked into developing a new search technology that would operate more efficiently and on a completely different principle than existing web search engines. At the time, the most common method utilized by the major search engines on the internet was returns based on how often keywords appear in a particular website. The theory behind Google 's search technology approached the subject from a different angle. Page and Brin hoped to produce more relevant results, rather than something based on frequency. As a result, not only was the engine to be highly reliable, but it had to produce results with unprecedented efficiency. Complex results could be posted
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