re: #249 Aceofwhat?

so, wait - the basic science that the google founders turned into applied science didn’t make them any money?

hint for obdicut: not all basic science is so urgently necessary that it needs extra tax dollars.

Of course it made them money? What are you talking about, Ace?

Why are you being patronizing about a subject you’re displaying a shitload of ignorance about?

PageRank has been influenced by citation analysis, early developed by Eugene Garfield in the 1950s at the University of Pennsylvania, and by Hyper Search, developed by Massimo Marchiori at the University of Padua. In the same year PageRank was introduced (1998), Jon Kleinberg published his important work on HITS. Google’s founders cite Garfield, Marchiori, and Kleinberg in their original paper.[5]

Look at that. That is the history of Google’s page rank. It was developed at Stanford, based on basic science research done at public universities.

This is the next generation of natural language problem solving and AI being developed— one application would be search engines, though that is just one application. It would provide huge benefits to a large number of fields, not just search engines.