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The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker

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Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.

Save this story Save this story One day in March of 2000, six of Google ’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of an unprecedented emergency. In October, its core systems, which crawled the Web to build an “index” of it, had stopped working. Although users could still type in queries at google.com, the results they received were five months out of date. More was at stake than the engineers realized. Google’s co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were negotiating a deal to power a search engine for Yahoo, and they’d promised to deliver an index ten t

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