[citation][nom]compooter_genius[/nom]jwcalla: Ummm... Google's been around since the late 90s, numb-nuts. The were among the first modern search engines. Yahoo was out a few years before them, and maybe Excite and Alta Vista, but they quickly died off because they sucked.Facebook happened to be in the right place at the right time, Friendster was first, it fell, then Myspace, Facebook was 3rd in-line to the throne. Besides, WTF do you think there is to patent in a social website? Do you regularly see Myspace and Twitter suing the crap out of each other for IP infringement? You don't, because even an east Texas judge wouldn't grant a patent for "a web application for storing a person's social interactions in a database".Think before you type something stupid....[/citation]
Do you even have a point here? I just pointed out that what the dude said is blatantly wrong. And it is: it is rare for any company in any era to become as big as Apple, MS or IBM have. And I don't know why he felt the need to inject political ramblings that were completely off-topic.