In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Stanford University graduate students partnered in building '''BackRub''' a search engine that determines the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref> | In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Stanford University graduate students partnered in building '''BackRub''' a search engine that determines the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref> |