re: #253 Obdicut

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?

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.

Were they funded by money intended for creating jobs back then?