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| name = Larry Page |
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| image = Larry Page in the European Parliament, 17.06.2009.jpg |
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| caption = Larry Page speaking at the [[European Parliament]] on June 17, 2009. |
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| birth_name = Lawrence Page |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|03|26|mf=yes}} |
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| birth_place = [[East Lansing, Michigan]], U.S. |
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| residence = [[Mountain View, California]] |
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| nationality = American |
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| alma_mater = [[University of Michigan]] ([[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]])<br>[[Stanford University]] ([[Master of Science|M.S.]]) |
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| occupation = [[Computer scientist]], [[List of Internet entrepreneurs|Internet entrepreneur]] |
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| known_for = Co-founder and CEO of Google Inc. |
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| salary = [[One-dollar salary|$1]]<ref name="forbes"/> |
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| networth = {{Gain}} US$ 23.0 [[1000000000 (number)|billion]] (2013)<ref name="forbes"/> |
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| title = CEO of [[Google]] |
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Lucinda Southworth|2007}} |
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| children = 2<ref>{{cite web|title=Larry Page Fast Facts|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/08/us/larry-page-fast-facts|publisher=cnn.com|accessdate=23 June 2013}}</ref> |
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| signature = Larry Page google signature.svg |
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| signature_alt = Larry Page |
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| website = {{URL|https://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/#larry|Google.com — Larry Page}} |
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'''Lawrence "Larry" Page'''<ref name=homepage>{{cite web|url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/~page/|title=Lawrence or Larry Page's Page|author=Larry Page|publisher=Stanford Web Site|year=1999|accessdate=May 18, 2010}}</ref> (born March 26, 1973) is an American [[computer scientist]] and [[List of Internet entrepreneurs|Internet entrepreneur]] who is the co-founder of [[Google]], alongside [[Sergey Brin]]. On April 4, 2011, Page became the [[chief executive officer]] of Google and [[Eric Schmidt]] is his predecessor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings.html|title=Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2010 Results and Management Changes|author=Google, Inc.|publisher=Google Investor Relations|date=January 20, 2011|accessdate=May 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=An update from the Chairman|url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/update-from-chairman.html|work=Google Official Blog|publisher=Google, Inc|accessdate=15 May 2013|author=Eric Schmidt|date=20|month=January|year=2011}}</ref> As of 2013, Page's personal wealth is estimated to be [[United States dollar|US$]]23 billion, ranking him #20 on the [[Forbes 400]] list of the 400 richest Americans.<ref name="forbes"/> |
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Page is the inventor of [[PageRank]], the foundation of Google's search ranking algorithm,<ref>{{cite web|title=Larry Page and Sergey Brin Biography|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ow-Sh/Page-Larry-and-Brin-Sergey.html#b|work=Encyclopedia of World Biography|publisher=Advameg, Inc|accessdate=15 May 2013|year=2013}}</ref> and he and [[Sergey Brin|Brin]] own approximately 16 percent of Google's stock.<ref>{{cite web|title=Google co-founders each hold nearly 16% stakes|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techstocknews/2004-05-24-google-founders-stakes_x.htm|publisher=usatoday.com|accessdate=18 June 2013}}</ref> |
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== Early life and education == |
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Page was born in [[East Lansing, Michigan]], United States (U.S.).<ref>{{cite web|title=The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine|url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html|work=Stanford University|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=15 May 2013|author=Sergey Brin|coauthors=Lawrence Page|year=1998}}</ref> His father, Carl Page, earned a Ph.D. in [[computer science]] in 1965—when the field was being established—and is considered a "pioneer in computer science and [[artificial intelligence]]." Both he and Page's mother, Gloria, were computer science professors at [[Michigan State University]].<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|title=Profile: The Google founders|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3666241.stm|accessdate=15 May 2013|newspaper=BBC News|date=30 April 2004|author=Will Smale}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cse.msu.edu/endowment/carl_page.php |title=MSU — Computer Science and Engineering — Carl V. Page Memorial Fellowship |publisher=Cse.msu.edu |date=September 5, 2000 |accessdate=September 4, 2012}}</ref> Page's mother is [[Jew]]ish, but he was raised without [[religion]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Story of Sergey Brin|url=http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2007/2007-02/200702-BrinFeature.html|work=Moment|publisher=Moment Magazine|accessdate=15 May 2013|author=Mark Malseed|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20110714111625/http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2007/2007-02/200702-BrinFeature.html|archivedate=14 July 2011|month=February|year=2007}}</ref> |
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Page attended the Okemos [[Montessori]] School (now called Montessori Radmoor) in [[Okemos, Michigan]] from 1975 to 1979, and graduated from [[East Lansing High School]] in 1991, and resides in Mountain View, California.<ref name="michigan.gov July 2006">{{cite web |title=Google Chooses Michigan for Expansion |url=http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-23442_21974-147032--,00.html |publisher=Office of the G 6, 2010}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=September 2012}} He holds a [[Bachelor of Science]] in [[computer engineering]] from the [[University of Michigan]] with honors and a [[Master of Science]] in computer science from [[Stanford University]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lowe|first=Janet|title=Google speaks : secrets of the world's greatest billionaire entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page| year= 2009| publisher= John Wiley & Sons|location=Hoboken, New Jersey|isbn=9780470398548}}</ref> While at the University of Michigan, Page created "an [[inkjet printer]] made of [[LEGO]] bricks" (actually a [[line plotter]]),{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} served as the president of the Beta Epsilon chapter of [[Eta Kappa Nu]],<ref name="hkn.org Eta Kappa Nu">{{cite web |title=HKN College Chapter Directory |url=http://www.hkn.org/admin/chapter.asp?ch=117 |publisher=[[Eta Kappa Nu]] |accessdate=September 5, 2012}}</ref> and was a member of the [[1993 "Maize & Blue" University of Michigan Solar Car]] team.<ref>{{cite web|title=Larry Page|url=http://www.americarichest.com/larry-page/|publisher=americarichest.com|accessdate=18 June 2013}}</ref> |
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During an interview, Page recalled his childhood, noting that his house "was usually a mess, with computers and ''[[Popular Science]]'' magazines all over the place". His attraction to computers started when he was six years old when he got to "play with the stuff lying around". He became the "first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a [[word processor]]."<ref name=Scott/> His older brother also taught him to take things apart and before long he was taking "everything in his house apart to see how it worked". He said that "from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in technology and business. Probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually".<ref name= Scott>Scott, Virginia. ''Google: Corporations That Changed the World'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008.{{Page needed|date=March 2013}}</ref> |
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After enrolling in a computer science Ph.D. program at Stanford University, Page was in search of a dissertation theme and considered exploring the mathematical properties of the [[World Wide Web]], understanding its link structure as a huge [[Graph (mathematics)|graph]].<ref>{{cite doi|10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00110-X}}</ref><ref name="wiredbirth"/> His supervisor [[Terry Winograd]] encouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as the best advice he ever got.<ref>[http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0804/gallery.bestadvice.fortune/2.html The best advice I ever got], ''Fortune'', April 2008.</ref> Page then focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable [[information]] about that page, with the role of [[citation]]s in [[academic publishing]] in mind.<ref name="wiredbirth">[[John Battelle|Battelle, John]]. "[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/battelle.html?tw=wn_tophead_4 The Birth of Google]", ''[[Wired Magazine]]'', August 2005.</ref> In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by [[Sergey Brin]], a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student.<ref name="wiredbirth"/> |
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[[John Battelle]], co-founder of ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine, wrote that Page had reasoned that the "entire Web was loosely based on the premise of citation – after all, what is a link but a citation? If he could devise a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web, as Page puts it 'the Web would become a more valuable place'."<ref name="wiredbirth"/> Battelle further described how Page and Brin began working together on the project: |
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{{quote|At the time Page conceived of BackRub, the Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents, with an untold number of links between them. The computing resources required to crawl such a beast were well beyond the usual bounds of a student project. Unaware of exactly what he was getting into, Page began building out his crawler. The idea's complexity and scale lured Brin to the job. A polymath who had jumped from project to project without settling on a thesis topic, he found the premise behind BackRub fascinating. "I talked to lots of research groups" around the school, Brin recalls, "and this was the most exciting project, both because it tackled the Web, which represents human knowledge, and because I liked Larry."<ref name=wiredbirth/>}} |
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Brin and Page originally met in March 1995 during a spring orientation of new Ph.D. candidates. Brin, who had already been in the program for two years, was assigned to show some students, including Page, around campus, and they later became friends.<ref name=Moschovitis>Moschovitis Group. ''The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia'', ABC-CLIO, 2005.</ref> |
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To convert the backlink data gathered by BackRub's [[web crawler]] into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the [[PageRank]] algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a [[Search engine (computing)|search engine]] far superior to existing ones.<ref name="wiredbirth"/> It relied on a new kind of technology that analyzed the relevance of the back links that connected one Web page to another.<ref name=Moschovitis/> In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available, still on the Stanford University Web site.<ref name="wiredbirth"/> |
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== Business == |
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{{Main|Google|History of Google}} |
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In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#larry| title = Larry Page Profile | publisher = Google }}</ref> Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired [[Eric Schmidt]] as Chairman and CEO of Google. In January 2011 Google announced that Page would replace Schmidt as CEO in April the same year.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704881304576094340081291776.html?mod=googlenews_wsj | title = Google's Page to Replace Schmidt as CEO | work=The Wall Street Journal | first=Amir | last=Efrati | date=January 21, 2011}}</ref> Both Page and Brin earn an annual compensation of [[one-dollar salary|one dollar]]. On April 4, 2011, Page officially became the chief executive of Google, while Schmidt stepped down to become executive chairman of Google. Page also sits on the Board of Directors of Google. |
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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/#section-board |title=Management team – Company – Google |publisher=Google.com |date= |accessdate=September 28, 2012}}</ref> |
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== Other interests == |
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Page is an investor in [[Tesla Motors]].<ref>[http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2006/06/01/tesla_motors_new_electric_sportscar_company_raises_40m_from_google_guys_others.html SiliconBeat: Tesla Motors New Electric Sports Car]</ref> He has invested in renewable energy technology, and with the help of [[Google.org]], Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars{{clarify|date=April 2013}} and other alternative energy investments.<ref name=Scott/> At the question and answer section of the 2013 Google I/O keynote talk, Larry Page expressed an interest in [[Burning Man]].<ref>[http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/google-io-2013-liveblog/#50512764920 Liveblog: Get the Latest Updates From Google I/O 2013 - Wired.com]</ref> |
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== Awards and recognition == |
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''[[PC Magazine]]'' has praised Google as among the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines (1998) and awarded Google the Technical Excellence Award for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google earned a [[Webby Award]], a People's Voice Award for technical achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards."<ref>[http://www.nsfgrfp.org/why_apply/fellow_profiles/sergey_brin National Science Foundation], Fellow Profiles.</ref> |
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In 2002, Page was named a [[World Economic Forum]] Global Leader for Tomorrow<ref name="CrunchBase profile">[http://www.crunchbase.com/person/larry-page CrunchBase profile]</ref> and along with [[Sergey Brin]], was named to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [[Technology Review]] [[TR35|TR100]], as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=380 |title=2002 Young Innovators Under 35: Larry Page, 29 |publisher=[[Technology Review]] | year=2002 | accessdate=August 14, 2011}}</ref> |
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In 2003, Page, along with Brin, received an [[Honorary degree|honorary]] [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]] from [[IE Business School]] "for embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new businesses."<ref>[http://www.ie.edu/IE/php/en/noticia.php?id=225 Brin and Page Awarded MBAs], Press Release, Sep 9, 2003</ref> In 2004, they received the [[Marconi Foundation]] Prize and were elected [[Fellow]]s of the Marconi Foundation at [[Columbia University]]. In announcing their selection, John Jay Iselin, the Foundation's president, congratulated the two men for "their invention that has fundamentally changed the way information is retrieved today."<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_Sept_23/ai_n6208748 Brin and Page Receive Marconi Foundation's Highest Honor], Press Release, Sep 23, 2004</ref> |
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In 2004, he was elected to the [[National Academy of Engineering]].<ref name="CrunchBase profile"/> Also that year, Page and Brin were named "Persons of the Week" by ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]''. In 2004 the [[X PRIZE]] chose Page as a trustee for their board.<ref name="corpexecs">[http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#larry Google Corporate Information: Management: Larry Page]</ref> |
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In 2005, Brin and Page were elected Fellows of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>[http://www.amacad.org/news%5Cnew2005.aspx Academy Elects 225th Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members]</ref> |
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In 2009, Page received an honorary doctorate from the [[University of Michigan]] during graduation commencement ceremonies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20090502-page-commencement.html |title=Larry Page's University of Michigan 2009 Spring Commencement Address=2009-10-6}}</ref> |
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In 2011, he was ranked 24th on the [[Forbes list of billionaires]] and as the 11th richest person in the United States.<ref name="forbes">{{cite news|url=http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-page/|title=Larry Page|author=Forbes|publisher=[[Forbes]]|year=2011|accessdate=November 2011}}</ref> |
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As of October 2012, the [http://topics.bloomberg.com/bloomberg-billionaires-index/ Bloomberg Billionaires Index] lists Page as the 27th richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of 21.1 billion.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bloomberg Billionares Index |accessdate=December 3, 2012 url=http://topics.bloomberg.com/bloomberg-billionaires-index/ |publisher=Bloomberg LP}}</ref> |
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== Personal life == |
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Page married Lucinda Southworth at [[Richard Branson]]'s Caribbean island [[Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)|Necker Island]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|title=Google founder Larry Page to marry|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSN1360879220071114|accessdate=15 May 2013|newspaper=Reuters|date=13 November 2007|author=Amanda Beck|author2=Gary Hill}}</ref> Southworth is a research scientist, and the sister of actress and model [[Carrie Southworth]].<ref name="ValleyWag.com 2007-12-7">{{cite web|title=President Bush, Clintons to meet at Googler wedding?|url=http://gawker.com/331398/president-bush-clintons-to-meet-at-googler-wedding|work=Gawker|publisher=Gawker Media|accessdate=15 May 2013|author=Megan McCarthy|date=7|month=December|year=2007}}</ref> As of November 2009, Page and Southworth are parents of a son.<ref>{{cite web|title=Another Google Heir Is Born|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/import/another-google-heir-is-born-2009-11|work=Business Insider|publisher=Business Insider, Inc|accessdate=15 May 2013|author=Ryan Tate|date=6|month=November|year=2009}}</ref> Page formerly dated Google's former head of location products [[Marissa Mayer]], who became Yahoo!'s CEO in July 2012.<ref>{{cite web|author=Dan Frommer |url=http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-01-20/tech/29986639_1_larry-page-larry-page-sergey-brin |title=Everything You Need To Know About Larry Page, Google's New CEO — Business Insider |publisher=Articles.businessinsider.com |date=January 20, 2011 |accessdate=September 4, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Yahoo CEO's pregnancy overshadows flat revenue|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-07-17/yahoo-earnings-marissa-mayer/56285424/1|accessdate=15 May 2013|newspaper=USA Today|date=18 July 2012|author=Jon Swartz}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Marissa Mayer|url=http://www.forbes.com/profile/marissa-mayer/|work=Forbes|publisher=Forbes.com LLC|accessdate=15 May 2013|year=2013}}</ref> |
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Page announced on his [[Google+]] profile in May 2013 that his right [[vocal cord]] is paralyzed from a cold that he contracted the previous summer, while his left cord was paralyzed in 1999.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pepitone|first=Julianne|title=Google CEO Larry Page has vocal cord paralysis|url=http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/14/technology/google-larry-page-voice/|accessdate=15 May 2013|newspaper=CNN Money|date=14 May 2013}}</ref> Page explained that he has been suffering from a vocal cord issue for fourteen years and, as of his May 2013 post, doctors were still unable to identify the exact cause of the problem. The Google+ post also revealed that Page had donated a considerable sum of money to a vocal cord nerve function research program at the [[Voice Health Institute]] in [[Boston]], U.S—an anonymous source has stated that the donation exceeds US$20 million.<ref>{{cite web|title=Larry Page Explains What Happened to His Voice|url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-14/larry-page-explains-why-he-lost-his-voice|work=Bloomberg Businessweek|publisher=Bloomberg L.P|accessdate=15 May 2013|author=Brad Stone|date=14|month=May|year=2013}}</ref> |
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== See also == |
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{{portal bar|biography|google|web}} |
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== References == |
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== External links == |
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* {{Google+|id=106189723444098348646}} |
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3666241.stm Profile] at ''[[BBC News]]'' |
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* [http://www.engin.umich.edu/alumni/engineer/04SS/achievements/advances.html Larry Page's Alumni Profile Composite] |
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| NAME = Page, Larry |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Computer scientist, Internet entrepreneur |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = March 26, 1973 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = Lansing, Michigan, United States |
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