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This is from back in 2006: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/08/01/can-your-programmi... And the sentiment was present even before the date of that article.

More precisely:

> The very fact that Google invented MapReduce, and Microsoft didn’t, says something about why Microsoft is still playing catch up trying to get basic search features to work, while Google has moved on to the next problem: building Skynet^H^H^H^H^H^H the world’s largest massively parallel supercomputer. I don’t think Microsoft completely understands just how far behind they are on that wave.

People were joking about Google ingesting all the data they could to build an AI, 12+ years ago.




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