That is a horrible comparison. Google's start up between 1996 and 1998 was also over twenty years ago. There were fewer than 200 million Internet users on the

That is a horrible comparison. Google's start up between 1996 and 1998 was also over twenty years ago. There were fewer than 200 million Internet users on the Internet and less than 2.5 million web sites [0] in 1998. Google was also started by two college grad students, meaning gasp it was initially just a research project. I'd also point out that while, yes, the initial production servers were cheap and used commodity hardware, this [1] is what they looked like, which is hardly the type of setup that the article is suggesting. [0]: http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/ http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#/media/File:Google%E2%80%99s_First_Production_Server.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#/media/File:...