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Re:Wealth isn’t created at the top, it is merely devoured there by 6t6t6t6 on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:32AM (#14129234)
Page Rank is not rocket science. Sooner or latter someone else would have come to the same conclusion (using incoming links to asses popularity).

I don't doubt that Larry Page is a talented man, but he was in the good place in the good moment. Now Google is in a dominant position and there's no place for any competition, but if Google never existed, we would have some other company doing similar things as Google. Maybe they would have appeared one year later.

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Re:Wealth isn’t created at the top, it is merely devoured there by MagnumOpus on Monday April 17, 2017 @05:29AM (#14129976)
> Sooner or latter someone else would have come to the same conclusion

Indeed, at the same time as Larry Page was thinking about PageRank, Li Yanhong created and patented RankDex (a very similar page ranking algorithm) over in New Jersey - and built Baidu out of it.

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Re:Wealth isn’t created at the top, it is merely devoured there by mamon on Monday April 17, 2017 @05:10AM (#14129937)
>> Page Rank is not rocket science.

Many scientific discoveries seem simple after the fact, like the Einsten's E=mc2, yet somehow it took one of the greatest minds in history of mankind to come up with it.

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Re:Wealth isn’t created at the top, it is merely devoured there by y4mi on Monday April 17, 2017 @11:25AM (#14131584)
there is a big difference between scientific discovery in a science-hostile environment back than and todays norm of continuous discoveries though...
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Re:Wealth isn’t created at the top, it is merely devoured there by xapata on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:42PM (#14133324)
Depending on which country you live in, the government might well be described as "science-hostile".
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