> While search engines do exhibit the benefit of highly parallel divide and conquer, Google was really the first to take it to the limit. Inktomi were doing it

> While search engines do exhibit the benefit of highly parallel divide and conquer, Google was really the first to take it to the limit. Inktomi were doing it first - since their inception, and they started long before google. Their founder, Eric Brewer, also came up with the CAP theorem.