A piece of news I came across that should be on the minds of all search engine marketers...Stanford computer science professor Rajiv Motwani died at his home last Friday in Atherton, California, he was 47.

His death is still under investigation by the San Mateo County coroner but the police do not suspect any foul play was involved.

Motwani was a frequent investor in many tech start-ups but is most well known as a mentor to many young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin who were graduate students at Stanford in the mid 1990's.

Professor Motwani, who was an expert in algorithmic and mathematical theories underlying computer science, helped Page and Brin explore the possibilities of analyzing the Web as a graph of interconnected pages.

Those conversations and Professor Motwani's approach, Brin said Monday, were "what enabled us to ultimately create something that turned out to be very useful for search."

Read more about Motwani's untimely death here.

His death has caused an outpouring of eulogies and from many of Silicon Valley’s best-known entrepreneurs and inventors. As search engine optimization professionals, we should recognize Professor Motwani and his academic theories as a major pillar of the SEO profession.

We at SEO Advantage extend are deepest sympathy to his family, friends and colleagues.


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