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I don't think so. Sure, he's a smart guy, but 99.999% of his success came from being at the right place at the right time.
i.e. writing DOS just as IBM entered the PC market. The rest is history.
Everyone realizes that googling names can frequently come up with false hits from the wrong person with the same name. Employers do this, boyfriends and girlfriends do it. Even though everyone knows how unreliable it is, they still keep googling names and using the results.
In a world constantly screaming for "moar" information it's a shame there's not enough reflection on how valuable or correct it is.
"...radical idea that people should get paid whenever their information is used..."
It's not so radical. We are currently treated like a herd of sheep, constantly being fleeced by the likes of Google and Facebook.