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"The #CIA and #NSA funded an unclassified, compartmentalized program designed from its inception to spur the development of something that looks almost exactly like Google. Brin’s breakthrough research on page ranking by #tracking user queries and linking them to the many searches conducted (...) was largely the aim of the #intelligence community’s #MDDS program. And #Google succeeded beyond their wildest dreams."

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/