:Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the Soviet Union,{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/us/immigrants-who-made-america-great-cfc/index.html|title=Nine immigrants who helped make America great|last=Jimison|first=Robert|date=July 31, 2019|publisher=CNN|access-date=August 18, 2019|archive-date=August 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818102346/https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/us/immigrants-who-made-america-great-cfc/index.html|url-status=live}} to Russian Jewish parents,{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sergey-brin |title=Sergey Brin |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321094557/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sergey-brin |url-status=live }} Mikhail and Eugenia Brin (1948–2024), both graduates of Moscow State University (MSU).{{cite news |last1=Rolnik |first1=Guy |title='I've Been Very Lucky in My Life' |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4983416 |work=Haaretz |date=May 22, 2008 |access-date=March 10, 2020 |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112103329/https://www.haaretz.com/1.4983416 |url-status=live }} His father is a retired mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother was a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.{{cite journal|last=Malseed|first=Mark|date=February 2007|title=The Story of Sergey Brin|journal=Moment Magazine|url=http://www.oldsite.momentmag.net/moment/issues/2007/02/200702-BrinFeature.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130121055147/http://www.oldsite.momentmag.net/moment/issues/2007/02/200702-BrinFeature.html|archive-date=January 21, 2013}}Smale, Will (April 30, 2004). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3666241.stm Profile: The Google founders] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210043647/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3666241.stm |date=December 10, 2017 }}, BBC News. Retrieved January 7, 2010.{{Cite web |date=2024-12-09 |title=Eugenia Brin, Longtime Supporter of Science, Performing Arts at UMD,… |url=https://today.umd.edu/eugenia-brin-longtime-supporter-of-science-and-performing-arts-at-umd-dies |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=Maryland Today |language=en}}

The Brin family lived in a three-room apartment in central Moscow, which they also shared with Sergey's paternal grandmother. In 1977, after his father returned from a mathematics conference in Warsaw, Poland, Mikhail Brin announced that it was time for the family to emigrate. They formally applied for their exit visa in September 1978, and as a result, his father was "promptly fired". For related reasons, his mother had to leave her job. For the next eight months, without any steady income, they were forced to take on temporary jobs as they waited, afraid their request would be denied as it was for many refuseniks. In May 1979, they were granted their official exit visas and were allowed to leave the country.

The Brin family lived in Vienna and Paris while Mikhail Brin secured a teaching position at the University of Maryland with help from Anatole Katok. During this time, the Brin family received support and assistance from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. They arrived in the United States on October 25, 1979.{{cite news |last1=Strom |first1=Stephanie |title=Billionaire Aids Charity That Aided Him |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25donate.html |work=The New York Times |date=October 24, 2009 |access-date=October 31, 2018 |archive-date=October 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031133141/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25donate.html |url-status=live }}

Brin attended elementary school at Paint Branch Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland, but he received further education at home; his father, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland, encouraged him to learn mathematics and his family helped him retain his Russian-language skills. He attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Maryland. In September 1990, Brin enrolled in the University of Maryland, where he received his Bachelor of Science from the Department of Computer Science in 1993 with honors in computer science and mathematics at the age of 19.{{cite web|url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html|title=Resume|access-date=March 9, 2008|last=Brin|first=Sergey|date=January 7, 1997|archive-date=March 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080322000250/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html|url-status=live}} In 1993, he interned at Wolfram Research, the developers of Mathematica.

Brin began his graduate study in computer science at Stanford University on a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, receiving an M.S. in computer science in 1995.{{cite book |last1=Henderson |first1=Harry |title=Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology |date=2009 |publisher=Facts On File |isbn=978-0-8160-6382-6 |page=57 |edition=Revised}} {{As of|2008}}, he was on leave from his PhD studies at Stanford.{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=534604&symbol=GOOG|title=Sergey Brin: Executive Profile & Biography|access-date=March 9, 2008|work=Business Week|quote=He is currently on leave from the PhD program in computer science at Stanford university...|archive-date=March 8, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090308131028/http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=534604&symbol=GOOG|url-status=dead}}

File:Schmidt-Brin-Page-20080520.jpg, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, 2008]]

During an orientation for new students at Stanford, he met Larry Page. The two men seemed to disagree on most subjects, but after spending time together they "became intellectual soul-mates and close friends." Brin's focus was on developing data mining systems while Page's was on extending "the concept of inferring the importance of a research paper from its citations in other papers".{{cite news|title=Enlightenment Man|newspaper=The Economist|date=December 6, 2008|url=https://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12673407|access-date=February 20, 2020|archive-date=February 3, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203054616/http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12673407|url-status=live}} Together, they authored a paper titled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine".{{Cite journal|last1=Brin|first1=S.|author-link1=Sergey Brin|last2=Page|first2=L.|author-link2=Larry Page|doi=10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00110-X|title=The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine|journal=Computer Networks and ISDN Systems|volume=30|issue=1–7|pages=107–17|year=1998|url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf|issn=0169-7552|citeseerx=10.1.1.115.5930|s2cid=7587743 |access-date=August 28, 2015|archive-date=September 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927004511/http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf|url-status=live}}

To convert the backlink data gathered by BackRub's web crawler into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a search engine far superior to those existing at the time.{{cite magazine|author1=John Battelle|title=The Birth of Google|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/battelle.html?tw=wn_tophead_4|magazine=Wired|access-date=February 12, 2018|date=August 13, 2005|archive-date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107160749/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/battelle.html?tw=wn_tophead_4|url-status=live}} The new algorithm relied on a new kind of technology that analyzed the relevance of the backlinks that connected one Web page to another, and allowed the number of links and their rank, to determine the rank of the page.Moschovitis Group. The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2005. Combining their ideas, they began utilizing Page's dormitory room as a machine laboratory, and extracted spare parts from inexpensive computers to create a device that they used to connect the nascent search engine with Stanford's broadband campus network.

After filling Page's room with equipment, they then converted Brin's dorm room into an office and programming center, where they tested their new search engine designs on the web. The rapid growth of their project caused Stanford's computing infrastructure to experience problems.{{cite news|title=Enlightenment man|url=https://www.economist.com/node/12673407|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=February 2, 2015|date=December 4, 2008|archive-date=April 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134801/https://www.economist.com/node/12673407|url-status=live}}

Page and Brin used Page's basic HTML programming skills to set up a simple search page for users, as they did not have a web page developer to create anything visually elaborate. They also began using any computer part they could find to assemble the necessary computing power to handle searches by multiple users. As their search engine grew in popularity among Stanford users, it required additional servers to process the queries. In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available on the Stanford Web site.

By early 1997, the BackRub page described the state as follows:

File:PageRanks-Example.svg algorithm facilitates, illustrated by size-percentage correlation of the circles. The algorithm was named after Page himself.]]

::Some Rough Statistics (from August 29, 1996)

::Total indexable HTML urls: 75.2306 Million

::Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes

::...

::BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux. The primary database is kept on a Sun Ultra series II with 28GB of disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provided a great deal of very talented implementation help. Sergey Brin has also been very involved and deserves many thanks.

:::- Larry Page {{nospam|page|cs.stanford.edu}}[http://backrub.c63.be/1997/backrub.htm Downloaded 11 – February 2009]. Backrub.c63.be. Retrieved May 29, 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613155605/http://backrub.c63.be/1997/backrub.htm |date=June 13, 2013}}

BackRub already exhibited the rudimentary functions and characteristics of a search engine: a query input was entered and it provided a list of backlinks ranked by importance. Page recalled: "We realized that we had a querying tool. It gave you a good overall ranking of pages and ordering of follow-up pages."{{cite magazine|url=http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/battelle.html?pg=2&topic=battelle&topic_set=|title=Wired 13.08: The Birth of Google|magazine=wired.com|date=August 2005|access-date=February 13, 2015|archive-date=July 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709201400/http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/battelle.html?pg=2&topic=battelle&topic_set=|url-status=live}} Page said that in mid-1998 they finally realized the further potential of their project: "Pretty soon, we had 10,000 searches a day. And we figured, maybe this is really real."

Some compared Page and Brin's vision to the impact of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of modern printing:

{{Blockquote|In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg introduced Europe to the mechanical printing press, printing Bibles for mass consumption. The technology allowed for books and manuscripts{{nsmdns}}originally replicated by hand{{nsmdns}}to be printed at a much faster rate, thus spreading knowledge and helping to usher in the European Renaissance{{nbsp}}... Google has done a similar job.[http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/10/01/google-the-gutenberg/ "Google the Gutenberg"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119215310/http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/10/01/google-the-gutenberg/ |date=January 19, 2015 }}. Information Technology. October 1, 2009}}

The comparison was also noted by the authors of The Google Story: "Not since Gutenberg{{nbsp}}... has any new invention empowered individuals, and transformed access to information, as profoundly as Google."Vise, David, and Malseed, Mark. The Google Story, Delta Publ. (2006) Also, not long after the two "cooked up their new engine for web searches, they began thinking about information that was at the time beyond the web," such as digitizing books and expanding health information.

File:Sergey_Brin_(cropped).JPG in October 2005]]

In June 2008, Brin invested $4.5 million in Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism company.{{cite news| first = John| last = Schwartz| title = Google Co-Founder Books a Space Flight| work = The New York Times| date = June 11, 2008| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/technology/11soyuz.html| access-date = June 11, 2008| archive-date = April 25, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130425092828/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/technology/11soyuz.html| url-status = live}}

Brin and Page jointly own a customized Boeing 767–200 and a Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet,{{cite news|title=Dornier Alpha Jet for Google's Founders|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/a-new-fighter-jet-for-googles-founders|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Miguel|last=Helft|date=October 23, 2008|access-date=September 29, 2012|archive-date=October 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004200919/http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/a-new-fighter-jet-for-googles-founders/|url-status=live}} and pay $1.3 million a year to house them and two Gulfstream V jets owned by Google executives at Moffett Federal Airfield. The aircraft has scientific equipment installed by NASA to allow experimental data to be collected in flight.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/technology/13google.html|title=Google Founders' Ultimate Perk: A NASA Runway|first=Miguel|last=Helft|date=September 13, 2007|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 13, 2007|archive-date=April 25, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425092726/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/technology/13google.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/13/BUPRS4MHA.DTL|title=Google founders pay NASA $1.3 million to land at Moffett Airfield|first=Verne|last=Kopytoff|date=September 13, 2007|access-date=September 13, 2007|work=San Francisco Chronicle|archive-date=May 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516185454/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2007%2F09%2F13%2FBUPRS4MHA.DTL|url-status=live}}

Brin is a backer of LTA Research & Exploration LLC, an airship maker company.{{cite news |title=Sergey Brin Has a Secret Plan to Put Airships Back in the Skies |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-25/inside-google-founder-sergey-brin-s-secret-plan-to-build-airships |access-date=29 May 2023 |work=Bloomberg.com |date=25 May 2023 |language=en |archive-date=May 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529204525/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-25/inside-google-founder-sergey-brin-s-secret-plan-to-build-airships |url-status=live }} In October 2023, LTA's 124-meter long flagship, Pathfinder 1, became the largest airship since the Hindenburg to receive clearance for flight testing, permitted over the boundaries of Moffett Field and neighboring Palo Alto Airport’s airspaces, at a height of up to 460 meters.{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Mark |title=EXCLUSIVE: Google Founder's Airship Gets FAA Clearance - IEEE Spectrum |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/lta-airship-faa-clearance |website=IEEE |language=en}}

File: Sergey Brin, Web 2.0 Conference.jpg Conference]]

Brin was raised Jewish, but is not religious.{{cite web |first=Nate |last=Bloom |title=Jews in the News: Diane Von Furstenburg, Michael Kors and Barbara Hershey |website=Tampa Jewish Federation |date=September 10, 2013 |url=https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-diane-von-furstenburg-michael-kors-and-barbara-hershey |quote=Brin’s Jewish parents left the former Soviet Union in 1979, tired of the anti-Semitism which had impeded their respective academic careers and despairing of the prospects for their son. Brin wed biologist Wojcicki in 2007 and the couple now have two children. Neither Brin nor Wojcicki (whose mother is Jewish) are religious, but they did have some Jewish touches at their secular wedding: a chuppah-- and Brin stepped on a glass |access-date=November 5, 2019 |archive-date=November 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105023447/https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-diane-von-furstenburg-michael-kors-and-barbara-hershey |url-status=live }}{{better source needed|date=December 2024}}

In May 2007, Brin married biotech analyst and entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki in the Bahamas.{{cite news | first = Amy | last = Argetsinger | author2 = Roberts, Roxanne | title = Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts – Oprah Winfrey's Degrees of Communication at Howard | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = May 13, 2007 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/12/AR2007051201168.html | access-date = October 20, 2007 | archive-date = August 21, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110821233857/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/12/AR2007051201168.html | url-status = live }}{{cite web | title = Anne Wojcicki Marries the Richest Bachelor | publisher = Cosmetic Makovers | url = http://cosmetic-makeovers.com/2007/05/18/anne-wojcicki-marries-the-richest-bachelor | access-date = October 20, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071028080241/http://www.cosmetic-makeovers.com/2007/05/18/anne-wojcicki-marries-the-richest-bachelor | archive-date = October 28, 2007}} They had a son in late 2008 and a daughter in late 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/liz-welch/the-way-i-work-anne-wojcicki-23andme.html|title=The Way I Work: Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe|work=Inc.com|date=May 29, 2012|access-date=March 16, 2013|archive-date=March 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301033930/http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/liz-welch/the-way-i-work-anne-wojcicki-23andme.html|url-status=live}} In August 2013, it was announced that Brin and his wife were living separately after Brin had an extramarital affair with a Google Glass colleague.Liz Gannes, [http://allthingsd.com/20130828/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-and-23andme-co-founder-anne-wojcicki-have-split "Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki Have Split"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828222539/http://allthingsd.com/20130828/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-and-23andme-co-founder-anne-wojcicki-have-split/ |date=August 28, 2013 }}, All Things Digital, August 28, 2013[https://abcnews.go.com/Business/google-founder-divorce-latest-costly-ceo-split/story?id=20143307 Alan Farnham, "Google: Men Apparently Do Make Passes At Girls Who Wear Glasses"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327103945/https://abcnews.go.com/Business/google-founder-divorce-latest-costly-ceo-split/story?id=20143307 |date=March 27, 2019 }}, ABC News, September 3, 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair|title=Sergey Brin and Amanda Rosenberg: Inside the Google Co-Founder's Romance with the Google Glass Marketing Manager|first=Vanessa|last=Grigoriadis|website=Vanity Fair|date=March 12, 2014|access-date=April 24, 2018|archive-date=October 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026214338/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair|url-status=live}} In June 2015, Brin and Wojcicki finalized their divorce.{{Cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair#~o|title=Sergey Brin and Amanda Rosenberg: Inside the Google Co-Founder's Romance with the Google Glass Marketing Manager|last=Grigoriadis|first=Vanessa|work=Vanity Fair|access-date=August 10, 2018|archive-date=October 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026214338/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair#~o|url-status=live}}

On November 7, 2018, he married Nicole Shanahan, a legal tech founder. They have a daughter, born in late 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/googles-sergey-brin-has-been-married-to-the-founder-of-a-legal-tech-startup-since-2018/articleshow/71430460.cms|title=Google's Sergey Brin has been married to the founder of a legal tech startup since 2018|website=Business Insider|last=Leskin|first=Paige|date=October 3, 2019|access-date=April 10, 2020|archive-date=December 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223005422/https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/googles-sergey-brin-has-been-married-to-the-founder-of-a-legal-tech-startup-since-2018/articleshow/71430460.cms|url-status=live}} Brin and Shanahan separated on December 15, 2021, and Brin filed for divorce on January 4, 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cofounder-sergey-brin-nicole-shanahan-divorce-court-filings-2022-6|url-access=subscription|title=Court filings reveal details of Google cofounder Sergey Brin's divorce from his wife, attorney Nicole Shanahan|last1=Price|first1=Rob|last2=Langley|first2=Hugh|date=June 17, 2022|website=Insider|access-date=June 17, 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220617141324/https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cofounder-sergey-brin-nicole-shanahan-divorce-court-filings-2022-6|archive-date=June 17, 2022}} In summer 2023, the divorce was finalized.{{Cite news |last=Davis O’Brien |first=Rebecca |date=February 12, 2024 |title=Meet the Woman Who Helped Pay for That R.F.K. Super Bowl Ad |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/nicole-shanahan-rfk-super-bowl-ad.html |access-date=February 18, 2023 |work=The New York Times}} The Wall Street Journal reported that a reason for the breakup was a "brief affair" in 2021 between Shanahan and Elon Musk, but these allegations have been denied and the article has since been retracted. Mishra, Stuti (July 26, 2022). "Who Is Nicole Shanahan? Meet the woman at the centre of the Elon Musk-Sergey Brin saga". The Independent.

Brin's mother, Eugenia, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2008, he decided to make a donation to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where his mother has received treatment.{{cite news|title=Google Co-Founder Has Genetic Code Linked to Parkinson's|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/technology/19google.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin|access-date=September 18, 2008|work=The New York Times|first=Miguel|last=Helft|date=September 19, 2008|archive-date=December 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213084840/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/technology/19google.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin|url-status=live}} According to Forbes, Brin has donated over $1 billion to fund research on the disease.{{cite web |last=Dolan |first=Kerry A. |date=December 9, 2022 |title=Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Has Quietly Donated More Than $1 Billion Toward Parkinson's Disease |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2022/12/09/exclusive-google-cofounder-sergey-brin-has-quietly-donated-more-than-1-billion-toward-this-one-specific-disease/?sh=67e3eaea4d59 |work=Forbes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209120553/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2022/12/09/exclusive-google-cofounder-sergey-brin-has-quietly-donated-more-than-1-billion-toward-this-one-specific-disease/ |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |url-status=live}}

Brin and Wojcicki, although separated, jointly ran The Brin Wojcicki Foundation until 2014. Since then, Brin has used the Sergey Brin Family Foundation and a donor-advised fund for his philanthropic giving.{{cite web |last=Maria |first=Di Mento |date=February 13, 2023 |title=The Philanthropy 50 |url=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/the-philanthropy-50/?sra=true#id=details_432_2022 |access-date=February 26, 2024 |website=Chronicle of Philanthropy}} They donated extensively to The Michael J. Fox Foundation and in 2009 gave $1 million to support the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.

Brin is a donor to Democratic Party candidates and organizations, having donated $5,000 to Barack Obama's reelection campaign and $30,800 to the DNC.{{cite web|url=https://www.opensecrets.org/search?q=sergey+brin&type=donors|website=Open Secrets|title=OpenSecrets|access-date=March 11, 2019|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327101159/https://www.opensecrets.org/search?q=sergey+brin&type=donors|url-status=live}} Brin attended the second inauguration of Donald Trump, sitting alongside Donald Trump supporters and other tech moguls.{{Cite web |last=Levitz |first=Eric |date=2025-01-31 |title=Why big tech turned right |url=https://www.vox.com/politics/397525/trump-big-tech-musk-bezos-zuckerberg-democrats-biden |website=Vox |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=2025 |title=The Notable Attendees – and No-Shows – at Trump's Inauguration |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-01-20/who-attended-trumps-inauguration-the-billionaires-and-far-right-leaders-who-gathered-at-the-swearing-in |work=U.S. News}}

• In 2002, Brin, along with Larry Page, was named in the MIT Technology Review TR100, as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=238 |title=2002 Young Innovators Under 35: Sergey Brin, 28 |magazine=Technology Review |year=2002 |access-date=August 14, 2011 |archive-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903141528/http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=238 |url-status=live }}
• In 2003, both Brin and Page received an honorary MBA from IE Business School "for embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new businesses...".[http://www.ie.edu/IE/php/en/noticia.php?id=225 Brin and Page Awarded MBAs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226171611/http://www.ie.edu/IE/php/en/noticia.php?id=225 |date=February 26, 2009 }}, Press Release, September 9, 2003
• In 2003, Brin and Page were both Award Recipients and National Finalists for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award."15 Local Business Leaders Receive Awards for Their Success in Business and the Community." 15 Local Business Leaders Receive Awards for Their Success in Business... PR NewsWire, June 23, 2003. Web. April 10, 2015. [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/15-local-business-leaders-receive-awards-for-their-success-in-business-and-the-community-71384622.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414022039/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/15-local-business-leaders-receive-awards-for-their-success-in-business-and-the-community-71384622.html|date=April 14, 2015}}
• In 2004, they received the Marconi Prize, and were elected Fellows of the Marconi Foundation. The two men were "cited for the invention that has fundamentally changed the way information is retrieved today."{{cite web |title=Sergei Brin, 2004 |url=https://marconisociety.org/fellow-bio/sergey-brin/ |access-date=October 5, 2024 |website=The Marconi Society }}{{cite web |title=Lawrence Page, 2004 |url=https://marconisociety.org/fellow-bio/lawrence-page/ |website=The Marconi Society |access-date=October 5, 2024}}
• In 2004, Brin received the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award with Larry Page at a ceremony in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web|title=Sergey Brin Biography and Interview|website=achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url=https://www.achievement.org/achiever/sergey-brin/#biography|access-date=April 1, 2019|archive-date=February 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190205004130/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sergey-brin/#biography|url-status=live}}
• In 2006, Brin was one of the inaugural class of winners of the Great Immigrants Award named by Carnegie Corporation of New York.{{Cite web |title=Great Immigrants, Great Americans |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/sergey-brin/ |access-date=February 21, 2024 |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}

• In November 2009, Forbes named Brin and Page the fifth most powerful people in the world.[https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/20/power-09_Sergey-Brin-and-Larry-Page_D664.html "The World's Most Powerful People: #5 Sergey Brin and Larry Page"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729114714/https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/20/power-09_Sergey-Brin-and-Larry-Page_D664.html |date=July 29, 2017 }} Forbes, November 11, 2009
• Earlier that same year, in February, Brin was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, which is "among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer ... [and] honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice...". He was selected specifically, "for leadership in development of rapid indexing and retrieval of relevant information from the World Wide Web".[http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=02062009 National Academy of Engineering] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312195209/http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=02062009 |date=March 12, 2011 }}, Press Release, February 6, 2009
• In their "Profiles" of Fellows, the National Science Foundation included a number of earlier awards:{{Blockquote|he was a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. ... PC Magazine has praised Google in the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines (1998) and awarded Google the Technical Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google earned a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for technical achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards.[http://www.nsfgrfp.org/why_apply/fellow_profiles/sergey_brin National Science Foundation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513191112/http://www.nsfgrfp.org/why_apply/fellow_profiles/sergey_brin |date=May 13, 2011}}, Fellow Profiles}}
• As of September 2024, Brin is the tenth-richest person in the world according to Bloomberg, with an estimated net worth of $135 billion.{{Cite news |date=September 4, 2024 |title=Bloomberg Billionaires Index |work=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/ |access-date=September 4, 2024}}

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