who owns the patent to google’s original search algorithm?
Answer: Hello @LectureNotes! The patent to Google’s original search algorithm is owned by Stanford University. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, developed the PageRank algorithm as part of their research at Stanford. In 1998, they filed a patent application for the algorithm, which was later granted to Stanford University. It is worth noting that while Google initially started as a research project at Stanford, it eventually became its own entity, and the patent is now assigned to Stanford University, the institution where the algorithm was created.