Man of foreign citizen of Chinese origin professes Google the 3rd author

October 2, 2008

A paragraph of video that man of a foreign citizen of Chinese origin uploads 3 days ago, the near future raised a mighty uproar on Internet. He claims he is the 3rd author of Google, once participated in Google to found all sorts of jobs of level.

This man is called Zhang Hongxian (Hubert Chang, hung Hsien Chang) , from its the use case of Chinese character and English transliteration looks, the likelihood comes from Taiwan. He expresses in video, spring 1996, he what study over was gotten acquainted with when Stanford university computer science department Professor Motwani is visitting new York university, introduce him to Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In Feburary 1997, they 3 people designed Google to search the PageRank algorithm with first engine together. In name of pattern of framework of Google whole system, trade, company, culture of company of pattern of institution of higher learning and development viatic conceive level, he also is participated in all the time among them. But after this, he decides to leave to still be in the Google in swaddle, return new York university to complete his school work. By 2002, he took the computer doctor’s degree of new York university, find Google to hope to admit his position later. “Very regretful is ” , the Google that has been a big company right now also does not buy his account book again.

Zhang Hongxian expresses, the PageRank paper of original Google does not have his name in the author, because if be written in the paper,go up,be oneself name, with respect to the delegate he must plan to finish first and last, this meeting affects his doctoral school work.

Current, google government has not published a comment to this matter. But piece in video also calm bear, publish again nowadays the name is video of “Google truth ” to declare such volatile event, after all appetent He Wei makes a person suspect really.