The "central" algorithm for Google is PageRank. Digging into the origins of this could reveal some interesting players.

Also note in the history of PR that a similar patent around the same time ended up in China (Baidu).

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

People don't realize how amazing the technology was when google.com first launched.

Enter a string of characters from any page on the internet and get exact results back in MILLISECONDS.

>>971633

Google didn't have "lots of machines back then.

If it was so simple, why was Yahoo struggling with manually curated indexes only a couple years earlier.

I question why you would discourage my post rather than ignore it.

the technology "isn't that big of a deal" fuck off pic related

Does Q have to spell out the rest of the letters after "central"?

>>971764

by the way

GOOGLE DOESN'T OWN THE PATENT TO THEIR CORE TECHNOLOGY

They license it from Stanford University.

>>971800

you're probably right. nothing weird going on at this private research college founded by a railroad baron/senator/governor with a spiritualist brother that has crowned many titans of the tech age.

>>971975

did i mention that Stanford owns Google's core patent?