Talk:Sergey Brin
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Is it true that he's David Brin's cousin? --207.99.73.226 16:25, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
about Brin's Blog :: www.searchguild.com/googleblog/ is this Brin's blog?
- hoax abakharev 05:54, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Hoax Website
Deleted a hoax website somebody had added to the middle of the bio ("http://www.mysergeybrin.com/").
[edit] Anti-semitism
Sergey Brin's father was a professor in Russia? And yet:
"Sergey was born in Moscow, the son of Michael Brin, a mathematician and economist. In 1979, when Sergey was five, his family immigrated to Palo Alto, California in the U.S. to avoid anti-semitism in the Soviet Union ."
...I tell you, that's some persecution in a country, if the virilent anti-semitism only allows you to have such a lowly job as professor!
- Umm what's your point? Einstein won his Nobel when he lived in Germany. He moved to the US in his 50s because of an offer of a position at Princeton, but I don't think many deny the rising Anti-Semitism in Germany was a factor. USSR was obviously not like Germany right before the Nazi take over, when it came to Anti-Semitism I mean, but the idea "he couldn't have faced virulent Anti-Semitism, he had a good job" is pretty silly.--T. Anthony 12:25, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
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- I also fail to see why it is so absurd to leave a good job when everybody hates you. Anti-semitism comes in more forms than what sort of job you are allowed; often, it's the subtle things; perhaps the government-provided housing (as the USSR held complete control over these and similar matters) was sub-optimal, or there were other academic positions that his father felt barred from, or just that the family felt uncomfortable in a community that did not respect their beliefs. I grew up in an American city that played host to a large number of Russian Jews who left home for its anti-semitism; my family left Russia a hundred years ago for the same reason. If your neighbors regularly scowled at you or looked down on you, you would move, too. Regardless of your financial situation. -- Adam Katz 20:11, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
This has been mentioned on the Jewish magazine Moment at http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2007/2007-02/200702-BrinFeature.html (retrieved 2007/03/01) as saying:
I’m curious as to whether Sergey has been a target of anti-Semitism since he left the Soviet Union. “I’ve experienced it,” he tells me. “Usually it is fairly subtle. People harp on all media companies being run by Jewish executives, with the implication of a conspiracy.” As an example, he cites the entry about him in Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia that famously accepts submissions and edits from anyone. “The Wikipedia page about me will be subtly edited in an anti-Semitic way,” he says.
He doesn’t elaborate, so I later take a look myself. Wikipedia retains the old versions of each of its pages and in that archive I find a number of occasions where people have added, moved or deleted references to Sergey’s Jewishness. Most seem harmless or ambiguous, but one jumps out. Several months ago, someone anonymously deleted a long-standing reference to the reason his parents had left Russia: “anti-Semitism.”
That bit seems to read as a request from Brin himself to return that fact to the article. -- Adam Katz 20:11, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Now it says they moved to Palo Alto so his father could teach in Maryland. Huh? —James S. 07:20, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sergey Brin pronunciation
I'm wondering how to pronounce his name. If anyone can write his name in IPA, I really appreciate. I want to translate this to Thai Wikipedia though.
- I'm not familiar with IPA, but his name is pronounced: sir-gay brin (like Bring without the G)
- Neither am I, but I looked it up. It's probably /sʲɪr'gʲej brʲin/. Notice r (not ɾ), and palatalization.
[edit] Pies and Page
I have removed a reference to throwing pies with Larry Page. Please don't replace it unless we have an actual reliable source. Capitalistroadster 20:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Removed a weasel word sentence stating that Google was wrong for hiring exclusively from elite universities. That has nothing to do with Brin and has the minor inconvenience of not being true. Ryanluck 20:31, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Paternal name
Why is his paternal name included? The person does not live in Russia anymore so I do not think it should be included. It's very improper and might even be offensive to include those things because of the person's country of birth. I suggest "Mikhailovich" to be removed [Northern 13:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)]
Paternal name removed since nobody justified it. [Northern 13:58, 30 December 2006 (UTC)]
[edit] Date of Birth
His personal page at http://www.mysergeybrin.com/Contents/Pages/Mainbar_My_Life.htm records he was born on 21 August 1974. In the wikipedia it is mentioned as 21 August 1973.
Which is the correct year?
That's a fake homepage. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/ is the real one! ― Sturr ★彡 Refill/lol 20:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
- I think so, too, and have therefore deleted the link to the fake site.--84.165.77.181 12:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Of course it's a fake site, just look at the whois information: http://whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=mysergeybrin&tld=com Registered by someone in Bulgaria... with a GMail address... Some people have absolutely no shame at all... But besides that, it only takes a minute or two to realize that's a fake... made by some people with really bad taste... and such poor English ("Google is a company in Mowntown (?!?) View) etc. Come on! --Vlad|-> 21:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Steve Ballmer "poor man" this year? :-)
I saw the list of forbes, jumping nearly 500 places from 2004 is impressive. Why is that not noted? I think the people at Google will reach the top within a few years. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.213.91.94 (talk) 06:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC).
