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by rifung 4053 days ago
Is it? I suppose I just assumed it wasn't expected to have any impact on the business side of things as they are the only company (again besides IBM) that does research in theoretical computer science. Not only that but they publish all their results in public.

I know that Google also does a lot of R&D but from what I can tell, it's usually directly related to what they are doing.

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Peter Norvig wrote an article "Google's Hybrid Approach to Research" http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/38149.pdf