It's 2000: can you spot the real Sergey Brin on the quiz show?

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Back when not so many people had heard of Google the company (or "search engines"), its co-founder turned up on a quiz show. The question nobody asked: why are you here, Sergey?

Cast yourself back now to 2000, when Google was just becoming part of the public consciousness: it had 170 employees but Larry Page and Sergey Brin's faces weren't that well known. (OK, maybe that's still true.)

So here's Sergey Brin - can you guess which one he is? - appearing on an American quiz show called "Tell the Truth", in which the panellists have to guess which one of three people is the real "Google guru" by asking them questions.

As much as anything, the identities and professions of the two other people are enlightening.. and surprising, given their answers to the questions they're asked.

And there's even a happy ending for the pre-IPO Google. Maybe if they could have gotten Page and Brin to appear every week they wouldn't have needed the venture capital funding.

Plus - would you know, facing the question over a table, in which country HTML was devised? No conferring..

(Thanks to Ed Bott on Google+ for the pointer.)

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Charles Arthur

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Charles Arthur 03 Aug, 2011

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