Rajeev Motwani Mentored Google Founders and Co-Developed PageRank Algorithm

Rajeev Motwani, an IIT Kanpur alumnus and Stanford professor, played a crucial mentoring role for Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the mid-1990s. Recognizing the potential of their early search engine project, initially called Backrub, Motwani supported and collaborated with them, contributing to the development of the PageRank algorithm that revolutionized web search. His encouragement and expertise helped transform their idea into a scalable framework, influencing the future of Silicon Valley innovation.