https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660

NSF Article on the founding of Google

contains a related Website readings:

Digital Libraries Initiative: http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/

Stanford Digital Library Project: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu

1998 Description of Google: http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/1998-8

Original PageRank paper: http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/1999-66

the grant Google was created out of

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9411306

"Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) Projects 1994-1999"

https://web.archive.org/web/20180403103609/http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-99/fox.html

There is still some sauce on this grant left on archived web pages it seems