First Web Search Creator Works At Google, Puts Books On Earth Map

The Inside Google Book Search Blog has a post from Matthew Gray about how he designed a program to plot the world based on the “frequency of its locations mentioned in books.” Google Operating System adds that Matthew Gray was the creator of the first ever web search engine, The World Wide Web Wanderer. Gray […]

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The Inside Google Book Search Blog has a post from Matthew Gray about how he designed a program to plot the world based on the “frequency of its locations mentioned in books.” Google Operating System adds that Matthew Gray was the creator of the first ever web search engine, The World Wide Web Wanderer.

Gray has gone full circle from starting a search engine, to starting a web analytics company, earning two degrees, joining a hardware startup, starting a wireless location company and now back to working in search.

This time, Gray he is working for Google as a software engineer in their Boston office.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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