Some interesting information on the "The Orgins of Google" from 2004
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660
Aug 17, 2004 - Page uncovered the missing links, so to speak, in Web page ranking. … Page was soon joined by Sergey Brin, another Stanford graduate student working on … $4,516,573. Related Agencies NASA DARPA. Related Websites