Larry and Sergey's initial funding for backrub when at Stanford was also from the NSA. Google doesn't exist without the military and intel community, who knew t

Larry and Sergey's initial funding for backrub when at Stanford was also from the NSA. Google doesn't exist without the military and intel community, who knew that one day they'd be able to seize information from these companies >The research arms of the CIA and NSA hoped that the best computer-science minds in academia could identify what they called “birds of a feather:” Just as geese fly together in large V shapes, or flocks of sparrows make sudden movements together in harmony, they predicted that like-minded groups of humans would move together online. The intelligence community named their first unclassified briefing for scientists the “birds of a feather” briefing, and the “Birds of a Feather Session on the Intelligence Community Initiative in Massive Digital Data Systems” took place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose in the spring of 1995.