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...there was no money in it, at least not directly--searching is free. Everybody assumed that one day somebody would figure out a way to reap dollars from it. But what's even more surprising is that the first round of the search wars was won by two twentysomething Stanford graduate students named Sergey Brin and Larry Page. In 1998 Brin and Page invented a new kind of search engine, one that assessed the importance of a Web page based not on a simple keyword search but on how many and what kinds of websites link to that Web page...
...consultant Hier. "If you're Harvard, you're never going to have to worry. I went to my 20year reunion at Brown, and nothing had changed but the paint." Even so, Cornell, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania are among the Ivies spending millions to spiff up their dorms. Stanford University is in the middle of a $300 million housing renovation. Still, says Rodger Whitney, executive director of Stanford's student housing, "We're not going in the direction of providing what I call country-club facilities...
...Stanford never looked back, eventually outscoring Harvard 56-28 after halftime, including an impressive 46-2 advantage in the paint...
...addition to strong inside play, Stanford also benefited from 19 points from guard Matt Lottich and seven assists from guard Chris Hernandez...
...with Harvard’s next game against its toughest scheduled opponent, Associated Press No. 6 Stanford, it seems safe to conclude that the team will successfully—or dubiously—match the record...