re: #232 Aceofwhat?

like i said above…good thing there aren’t any private companies working furiously to develop a better search mousetrap.

…and democrats wonder why they’re labeled as economically illiterate.

No, Ace. This is an attempt to solve the natural language problem— among other things. This is basic science research. Search engine companies are working on refining their algorithms; the basic science of this type is not yet mature enough to actually be worth the investment of private companies.

This is the typical pattern: The government sponsors the basic science research, huge breakthroughs are made, and then are exploited by private companies refining them. Google’s patented algorithms, and their secret ones, are not groundbreaking new ones, but based off of public work. The algorithm was developed by— gasp— Stanford University, and licensed by Google.