Google’s Larry Page: Good Ideas Still Get Funded
"We realized by talking to all the CEOs of search companies — which were really turning into portals — that commercially, no one was going to develop search engines. They said, "Oh, we don’t really care about our search engine." And we realized there was a huge business opportunity and that nobody else was going to work on it."
03/28/01 update: Novell’s Schmidt named chairman of Google
07/09/01 update: Google’s Successful Search.
