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Fortune
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

In 2000 Larry Page said Google was ‘nowhere near’ the ultimate search engine—25 years later, Gemini might be close

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Google cofounder Larry Page had a vision for search engines 25 years ago that sounds eerily close to what its AI product Gemini is making possible today.

Page, who started Google with cofounder Sergey Brin, served in his first stint as CEO from the company’s founding in 1998 until 2001 when he was replaced by Eric Schmidt, who would serve in the role for a decade.

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