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By the same logic Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo (much better for technical searches) could provide Google's services if they disappeared from the face of the earth

• logicchains 10y ago
  What I meant was Google's founders could still have founded it without government money, it would just have taken them longer to obtain the funding. Money isn't enough to make a search engine; Baidu for instance has the Chinese government behind it but still produces worse results even for Chinese language searches than Google. Bing's had quite a lot of funding from Microsoft put into it.
  • byroot 10y ago
    Even besides that early governmental founding. Companies aren't created nor exist in a vacuum. Tax payer's money payed for most of the infrastructures, research and education those companies requires to operate. How can you run a company like Google or any other without educated employees, roads, internet, etc. Entrepreneurs love to think they built themselves alone, but they are just a product of the society they lives in. Now as a society you can choose to either socialize or privatise your infrastructures, but you'll have to pay for them either way.