re: #247 goddamnedfrank

How exactly do you think Google got started in the first place, how was PageRank developed? Hint, it involved grants from the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies.

they started by working on a program in collaboration with the Digital Libraries Project, shared across multiple institutions and sponsored by a large number of private industries in addition to the NSF.

so, yeah. it’s exactly like a stimulus check to a prof working on ethereal cognition programming, except for the part where it’s nothing like that.