Stanford PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched Google Search in 1998, deploying their PageRank algorithm to rank web pages by the number and quality of links pointing to them. Within a few years Google had become the dominant gateway to online information worldwide. For poetry enthusiasts, it became the quickest route to finding texts, biographical information, and literary criticism at any hour.

The launch of the Google Search Engine in 1998 revolutionized information access and research methodologies. This transformation influenced contemporary poetry, particularly found poetry, as poets began to incorporate digital texts and the vastness of online information into their creative processes.