"Google was based on a couple of brilliant ideas (Page rank, text-only ads, massive parallel implementation on cheap hardware) but none of those ideas were orig

"Google was based on a couple of brilliant ideas (Page rank, text-only ads, massive parallel implementation on cheap hardware) but none of those ideas were original with Larry or Sergey." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank "PageRank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page (hence the name Page-Rank[1]) and Sergey Brin " Geez, it's only named after him. Also: text-only ads are somewhat less brilliant than any number of things msft has done. Yeah--they _work_, but they aren't brilliant, and they sure as hell aren't original. Massive parallel implementation, of course, is hardly an "idea" of google's.