"The SDLP is notable in the history of Google as a primary sources of funding for Lawrence Page's and Sergey Brin (Brin was also supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship) during the period they developed the precursors and initial versions of the Google search engine prior to the incorporation of Google as a private entity"
This included a $4,516,573 NSF grant (that didn't go to Larry & Sergey in full, but probably helped their project's infrastructure quite a bit).
On the expense side I've probably actually underestimated the expenses by orders of magnitude. Bandwidth wasn't cheap back then and the storage requirements probably were significantly higher.
This included a $4,516,573 NSF grant (that didn't go to Larry & Sergey in full, but probably helped their project's infrastructure quite a bit).
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=9411... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Digital_Library_Projec...
On the expense side I've probably actually underestimated the expenses by orders of magnitude. Bandwidth wasn't cheap back then and the storage requirements probably were significantly higher.