The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
The Digital
Research Initiative
Some Netpreneurs
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Google's founders Sergey
Brin (left) and Larry Page
(right) developed a new approach to online search that took root in a
Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around
the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine
-- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction
of a second.
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Pierre Omidyar of
eBay
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