Lawrence “Larry” Page the 37 year old computer scientist and software developer and co-founder of Google has been appointed the CEO of Google as the existing Eric Schmidt steps down to become executive chairman. Page developed Google along with Sergey Brin from a concept nicknamed ‘Backrub’ being the idea to quantify the number and nature of backlinks (ie citations) that a web page has developed, leading to a PageRank algorithm and the ultimate construction of a search engine far superior to those that existed. Eric Schmidt joined Google as Chairman and CEO as Brin and Page took on joint President roles, an unusual corporate structure but one that appeared to work well for the three. This new shuffle of deck chairs is being hailed as a means of speeding up decision making at the company.

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