*blink*

Am I crazy, or does this paper describe the original theory behind Google (the search engine, for those living on Charon)??

All of a sudden the name makes much more sense; it was originally designed to scale up to search 100 million webpages. Kind of a 'duh', but interesting to see it in print.

And apparently it is true; the official history is almost as funny, especially the bit about having to create a fictitious entity before they could cash the check they were given for capital (by the way, kittenpants, I was able to cash that "married" check just fine!).