your young self was right. the inventors of pagerank are pretty fucking cool, they also made an entire book on it, technology back then wasn't just smoke and mirrors if you understood linear algebra. Main note: they were employees of google.

Tech companies did cool shit when it wasn't about collecting data and profiling users. now they're ruthless scums trying to find by any means how to capitalize off of you.

Lots of smart people work at Google. They are not included in senior management.

Yea. Google had paraded around like a University and showed their “freedom” of knowledge in the early day with smart creative people working for them. Now, after they went public, the corporate greed reared its ugly head and has been slowly eroding the company for users in favor of investors and “growth”. Google need to be broken up.