All we felt sad about was that Google did talk to us, learnt whole lot about Landmark intelligent directions from us and eventually it comes up with a lofty sto

All we felt sad about was that Google did talk to us, learnt whole lot about Landmark intelligent directions from us and eventually it comes up with a lofty story on how did they figure out the problem, terming it as their own invention and without patronizing RouteGuru at all Can you prove that? How do you know that they didn't truly come up with the idea on their own? There are thousands of possible ways this thing played out. Maybe the discussions you had were after some people at Google started having that idea. Maybe the people you met had never had that idea, but another employee in the next cubicle was already working on it for months. You don't know how it all worked out. Parallel inventions are common place, especially in this case, since it seems that the idea was fairly obvious and in widespread use in India.