It's very likely that many of you have read, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998), by Google co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The paper was written while they were students at Stanford.
Here's a short bibliography of other papers that the "Google Boys" wrote while members of the Stanford Database Group.
+ Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web (1999)
by Sergey Brin
+ Dynamic Data Mining: Exploring Large Rule Spaces by Sampling (1999)
by Sergey Brin and Larry Page
+ The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web (1999)
by Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Larry Page, and Terry Winograd
+ Efficient Crawling Through URL Ordering (1998)
by J. Cho, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Larry Page
+ Copy Detection Mechanisms for Digital Documents (1995)
by Sergey Brin and Hector Garcia-Molina
+ Near Neighbor Search in Large Metric Spaces (1995)
by Sergey Brin
