From the original paper published by Sergey and Page..
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems.http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
They were solving a problem - a very common problem in the days when internet content exploded.
But they solved a problem, gaining a massive userbase, and only then became a great company because they were able to make money alongside the problem they were solving.
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
They were solving a problem - a very common problem in the days when internet content exploded.