BackRub
2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2025 by David Rosenthal · said 21 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Excite licensed Google's Backrub search technology for $1M in 1997
“And Vinod is on the board of Excite. And so somehow Larry and Sergey, and I think they bring Scott along, get a meeting with Vinod and they hammer out a deal that Excite is going to license this back rub search technology from the two of them for about a milli…”
Jun 30, 2025
Classmate Scott Hassan rewrote Larry Page's broken BackRub crawler in Python
“He writes it in Java and it's like super buggy and basically doesn't work. So they ask one of their friends there at Stanford, a guy named Scott Hassan, to help them. Scott's a better coder than Larry and Sergey is. So he codes it up in Python and it actually …”