In 1996, when Microsoft had already made its name in the PC Industry as a software gaint, many college students dreamt to be the next Bill Gates. But, they did not know how to achieve the glory, what should be done? Many of them wanted to join the company to be part of the booming wave and also make lots of money. This is probably true with Standford students too.
The internet started to show its face. Search engines such as Altavista, Infoseek and Yahoo emerged inside the Netscape Browser, but were either slow or could not fetch useful needed information at will.
When Brin and Page were studying at Stanford, they just not only had inspiring friends, but also inspiring teachers. I think one of them wanted to download the world wide web and study it intensely to see how to meaningfully rank order the links to get meaning results of search queries. I am sure the idea would have emerged by means of some useful and intense brainstorming with geeks and professors. It is not just the motivation that made the two lads perceive their research but also the support the university gave them with lot of faith in their project which finally gave GOOGLE to us.
It would be nice to introspect this aspect and extract some best practices that could be followed in grooming and shaping the student-teacher relationship right from high school to graduate school. I will try to talk about this to more and more teachers I meet henceforth.
I will try to blog more about this aspect and my findings moving forward.
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