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title: "If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet"
date: 2012-08-09
description: " Google did a great job of slurping up some of the most talented researchers in the world at a time when places like Bell Labs and Xerox PARC were dying. It managed to grab not just their researchers, …"
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> [Google](http://google.com "Google") did a great job of slurping up some of the most talented researchers in the world at a time when places like [Bell Labs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs "Bell Labs") and [Xerox PARC](http://www.parc.com/ "PARC (company)") were dying. It managed to grab not just their researchers, but their lifeblood.

[Great story](http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/all/) about some of the most under-appreciated engineers behind Google.