Hubert Chang: Der dritte Google Gründer

Der sechste Beatle, der vierte Musketier, immer wenn man glaubt alle zu kennen taucht auf einmal ein neues Mitglied auf.

Technorati hat vor ein paar Tagen berichtet, das Hubert Chang der dritte Google Gründer ist. Google und der Stanford Professor Rajeev Motwani habe dies aber nun offizielle verneint.

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There is no substance to Hubert Chang’s claims – he had no involvement in the creation of Google. Neither Larry or Sergey have any recollection of meeting him – however, given the number of people they’ve met in the last decade it’s impossible to say categorically that they never have. Rajeev Motwani, the Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Stanford, believes he may have shared some emails from Mr. Chang with Larry and Sergey in 1997 or 1998. But in any case PageRank had already been developed by that time, and Larry and Sergey had already decided to start Google.

Rajeev Motwani Statement

To the best of my knowledge, his claims about being a founder of Google, coming up with the name and/or the business plan etc, are completely unfounded in reality. I am sure I would have noticed a third founder, if one existed, since I was working closely with Larry and Sergey at Stanford the time.

I do recall receiving a couple of emails from Hubert Chang in 1997 or 1998. Its been such a long time that I don’t have any recollection of their contents but it’s probable I shared those emails with Larry and Sergey. In any case, by that time the basic idea of PageRank was already in place and there was a clear intent of building a company around this. I am pretty certain that none of the three of us actually met with Hubert Chang during that time period.

Reiner Zufall das Google gerade sein 10 jähriges feiert?

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