This is the duo that helped Google escape the disaster at the worst time and together changed the Internet history

Larry Page and Sergey Brin are known worldwide as the founders of the Google search engine but few know that there is another company within the company that has helped turn the idea of ​​Google into reality and even Save the company from a disaster when Google falls at its worst.

These were Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, two engineers who joined Google in the 2000s, when there were no computers large enough to handle Google's web index.

An article in The New Yorker recently told the story of how these two engineers helped rescue the company from bankruptcy. In particular, to help the company with active funds, Page and Brin negotiated a support agreement for Yahoo's search engine. But there was a problem, there was a google.com website error that Google's top engineers could not handle.

The first employee of Google, Craig Silverstein, said they have done all the analysis but still cannot determine where the problem is.

Working together on code for days, Dean and Ghemawat discovered that some keywords were missing from Google. And to better understand what their computers see, both decided to convert Google's index to binary code (a series of numbers 0 and 1). Thus, Dean and Ghemawat discovered and solved the problem, helping to save the deal with Yahoo as well as Google itself.

This is the duo that helped Google escape the disaster at the worst time and together changed the Internet history Picture 1
Sanjay Ghemawat and Jeff Dean.

Later, Sanjay Ghemawat and Jeff Dean also jointly developed many other important projects of Google. The most prominent is MapReduce, a new way for Google to track and index the Internet in 2003.

MapReduce was later cloned for free and played an important role in helping platforms such as LinkedIn, Netflix and Facebook work stably.

Now Dean is the head of AI projects at Google, while Ghemawat is still working on solutions to improve the search engine.

However, outside the Googleplex wall, hardly anyone knows about Dean and Ghemawat's tremendous influence on Google (and the Internet).

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