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Sergey Brin

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During an orientation for new students at Stanford, he met Larry Page. They seemed to disagree on most subjects. But after spending time together, they "became intellectual soul-mates and close friends". Brin's focus was on developing data mining systems while Page's was in extending "the concept of inferring the importance of a research paper from its citations in other papers".[8] Together, the pair authored a paper titled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine".[18]

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 far superior to existing ones.[19] The new algorithm relied on a new kind of technology that analyzed the relevance of the backlinks that connected one Web page to another, and allowed the number of links and their rank, to determine the rank of the page.[20]

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Brin is working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google. For example, he and Page are trying to help solve the world's energy and climate problems at Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy. The company acknowledges that its founders want "to solve really big problems using technology".[26]

In October 2010, for example, they invested in a major offshore wind power development to assist the East coast power grid,[27] which will eventually become one of about a dozen offshore wind farms that are proposed for the region.[28] A week earlier they introduced a car that, with "artificial intelligence", can drive itself using video cameras and radar sensors.[26] In the future, drivers of cars with similar sensors would have fewer accidents. These safer vehicles could therefore be built lighter and require less fuel consumption.[29] They are trying to get companies to create innovative solutions to increasing the world's energy supply.[30] He is an investor in Tesla Motors,[31] which has developed the Tesla Roadster (2008), a 244-mile (393 km) range battery electric vehicle as well as the Tesla Model S, a 265-mile (426 km) range battery electric vehicle.

In 2004, he and Page were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. In January 2005 he was nominated to be one of the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leaders". In June 2008, Brin invested $4.5 million in Space Adventures, the Virginia-based space tourism company. His investment will serve as a deposit for a reservation on one of Space Adventures' proposed flights in 2011. Space Adventures, the only company that sends tourists to space, has sent five of them so far.[32]

Brin and Page jointly own a customized Boeing 767-200 and a Dornier Alpha Jet,[33] and pay $1.3 million a year to house them and two Gulfstream V jets owned by Google executives at Moffett Federal Airfield. The aircraft have had scientific equipment installed by NASA to allow experimental data to be collected in flight.[34][35]

In 2012, Brin has been involved with the Project Glass program and has demoed eyeglass prototypes. Project Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD).[36] The intended purpose of Project Glass products would be the hands-free displaying of information currently available to most smartphone users,[37] and allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands.[38]

Brin was also involved in the Google driverless car project. In September 2012, at the signing of the California Driverless Vehicle Bill,[39] Brin predicted that within five years, robotic cars will be available to the general public.[40]

Brin is a supporter of

lab-grown meat

and kite-energy systems.[41][42]