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Find more information on him, rather than just the company he co-founded. Find more information on his current role within Google.

Is it really nescesary to include that he is a Jewish American, I mean do we include in other articles he is a Christian American, of Catholic American or Muslim American? His religion could be mentioned but is really not nescesary in the intro. Mac Domhnaill 03:06, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

1 Article name
2 Unknown Height?
3 Business section
4 Net Worth
5 Did he invent the Web Page?

[edit] Article name

This article should be moved to Larry Page, according to the Wikipedia policy for the article name to be the common name. For example, the article on James Earl Carter is at Jimmy Carter. Twilight Realm 00:51, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

BTW, what does "E." stand for? Anyone know his full name? --80.167.172.134 18:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Edward, apparently. -- Zanimum 20:19, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I think his middle name is Edison.

[edit] Unknown Height?

"Larry Page, of unknown height, was born in Lansing, Michigan." What makes his height relevant to that sentence? Or the entire entry? Is he particularly tall or short?

The "of unknown height" part is not relevant at all. It should be removed. It's just as uninformative as leaving it out of the sentence entirely. Noobarino 22:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Business section

So Page built an inkjet printer out of lego bricks. How is this relevant to the business? Removed this: "While in the university, he built a working inkjet printer from Lego pieces." Genome82 12:18, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Not very, but they do mention it in his official biography. It's just a footnote now. -- Zanimum 20:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Net Worth

The intro and summary box state that his net worth is estimated at $24 billion, while lower in the article it states his net worth, according to Forbes, is $12.8 billion - is one of these inaccurate? Are these two different estimates by different organizations? (The latter option I would find surprising given the difference between the two numbers) -- unregistered user, 02:29, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

According to the recent Forbes 400 list, Page is currently worth $14 billion:

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/54/biz_06rich400_The-400-Richest-Americans_Rank.html

I've struck a direct mention of Page's net worth due to the high variability; his worth is directly pegged to Google's stock price. We know that he's worth in the range of $14B to $18B nowadays, but since his net worth goes up and down by hundreds of millions (if not whole billions) of dollards each day, stating an amount in Wikipedia is just silliness. —X S G 07:24, 22 October 2006 (UTC)