Of course, you do know that Larry and Sergey were Stanford grad students, that Google came out of a research project they did there and that the basic Google pagerank search algorithm is the subject of US Patent 6,285,999, assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (and subsequently from them to the National Science Foundation)
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Of course, you do know that Larry and Sergey were Stanford grad students, that Google came out of a research project they did there and that the basic Google pagerank search algorithm is the subject of US Patent 6,285,999, assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (and subsequently from them to the National Science Foundation)