Tuesday 26 July 2011

Awards and recognition

In 2003, both Brin and Page accustomed an honorary MBA from IE Business School "for embodying the ambitious spirit and lending drive to the conception of fresh businesses...."25 And in 2004, they accustomed the Marconi Foundation Prize, the "Highest Award in Engineering," and were adopted Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. "In announcement their selection, John Jay Iselin, the Foundation's president, congratulated the two men for their apparatus that has fundamentally afflicted the way advice is retrieved today." They abutting a "select core of 32 of the world's best affecting communications technology pioneers...."26 He was adopted to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004. In 2005, Brin and Page were adopted Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.27 In 2002 the World Economic Forum called Page a Global Leader for Tomorrow and in 2004 the X PRIZE chose Page as a trustee for their board.11

PC Magazine has accepted Google as amid the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines (1998) and awarded Google the Abstruse Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google becoming a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for abstruse achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Best Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards."28

In 2004, Page and Brin were called "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. Page accustomed     an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan in 2009 during graduation admission ceremonies.29

In 2011, he was ranked 24th on the Forbes account of the world’s billionaires and as the 11th richest being in the United States

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