Page chose to focus on computer engineering for graduate school at Stanford University, where he met Brin, after receiving a Bachelor of Science in engineering from the University of Michigan.
Page examined web linking patterns between several websites. In order to determine how many other online sites connect to a certain page, Larry Page set out to develop a system. Page quickly discovered that a considerably more accurate prediction,of a Web document's relevance to a user's search criteria was rating websites by the amount of links pointing to them from other websites. At Stanford, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who later co-founded Google, became business partners.