Who Is?

Who is Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Matt Cutts, Jerry Yang, David Filo, Rand Fishkin, Jill Whalen, Aaron Wall, Timothy Berners-Lee, Barry Schwartz.

Here we give a brief insight into each of these individuals who have made massive contrubutions and, made the Internet and World Wide Web what it is today.

 

Larry Page

Lawrence Page, ‘Larry’, is a co-founder of the Google – the undisputed search engine champion of the world, now known as Google Inc. In 2007 he was cited by PC World as being one of the most important people on the web. The link analysis program Google Pagerank is a trademark of Google, which as the name indicates was developed by Page.

 

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin, along with Larry Page, is the other founder of Google Inc. Along with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt (CEO), he shares the responsibility for the day-to day running and operations of Google Inc. Sergey has published numerous academic papers including A New Architecture for Data with High Dimensionality which he published with Larry Page and is also known for being a guest speaker at many business and technology forums.

 

Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts joined Google in 2000 as a software engineer; he is currently head of Google’s Webspam team. Cutts wrote the first version of ‘Safesearch’, the family filter of Google. He also discusses and talks about SEO and gadgets at his blog.

 

Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang is a co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. He is the CEO of and is responsible for building Yahoo! into the world’s leading high traffic websites and remains one of key people on the executive management team at Yahoo! His main focus within the company has been recruitment of key people, corporate technology vision and building international joint ventures.

 

David Filo

David Filo is the other co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. He is a member of Yahoo’s executive management team and credited first and foremost for building Yahoo! into one of the Internet’s most recognised brands and highly trafficked website. Filo is also responsible for directing the technical operations for the company’s worldwide network of Web properties.

 

Rand Fishkin

Rand Fishkin is CEO and founder of the Seattle, WA based company SEOmoz, a search marketing consultancy firm. Probably best known for his work at SEOmoz website in the field of SEO/SEM. The site serves in excess of 20,000 readers daily. Rand also gives his outlook and perspective on how SEO works in interviews with many leading companies.

 

Jill Whalen

Jill Whalen is the CEO of High Rankings and so-founder of Search Engine Marketing New England. She is a SEO consultant, writer and a speaker at Search Engine Strategies Conferences. Jill is considered to be a pioneer in search engine optimisation and is the host of the free High Rankings Advisor newsletter.

 

Aaron Wall

Aaron Wall is a search engine optimisation expert who writes the increasingly popular blog SEOBook, newsletter, articles, providing insight and inspiration to readers with all aspects of search engine optimisation (SEO), he is also a frequent and notable speaker at both the Search Engine Strategies and PubCon conferences. In 2005 Traffic Power sued him for defamation and publication of trade secrets. This raised the issues regarding the liability of comments posted on websites and blogs; however, the case was dismissed for insufficient personal jurisdiction. In 2008, Aaron Wall works with Wordtracker to write and publish the e-book ‘50 Kick-Ass Keyword Strategies’ which provides simple innovative and easy ideas to use keywords effectively to increase traffic to websites.

 

Timothy Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist, credited with inventing the World Wide Web. On 25 December 1990 he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN. He was ranked Joint First in The Telegraph’s list of 100 greatest living geniuses. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web’s continued development, the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and is also a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). (Source)

 

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is an established and much revered reporter and blogger who writes about search engines and search engine marketing. He also has a variety of ’strings to his bow’, notably he is editor of ‘Search Engine Roundtable‘ as well as moderating on and off-line panels at Search Engine Watch, Crr8asite Forums and WebmasterWorld’s PubCon. He also hosts the Search Pulse podcast on WebmasterRadio.FM. Schwartz became the president of Rustybrick Inc. a web services company in 2008.