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In 15 years when the search engine have failed to evolve because Google is a monopoly and has no incentive to keep improving it, you may have a different perspe

In 15 years when the search engine have failed to evolve because Google is a monopoly and has no incentive to keep improving it, you may have a different perspective. I am not defending AT&T, just pointing out that corporations do not care, and all of them (even Google) ultimately seek profit margins at the expense of others.

SwellJoe 11y ago
I'm confident there will come a day when I'm ranting about Google and their anti-competitive practices (and not just, or even most importantly, on the search engine front) and rent-seeking. Google will be scary when they achieve the soulless status of T or VZ.
greglindahl 11y ago
Uh, some of us started complaining about search engines failing to evolve a decade ago, guess we were before our time! Or at least too early to market.
ansible 11y ago
In 15 years when the search engine have failed to evolve because Google is a monopoly and has no incentive to keep improving it, you may have a different perspective. LOL, Wut? I don't think you appreciate what it takes to maintain and improve a search engine these days. For example... Remember when link farms were big? They were doing this to boost their score for the existing PageRank algorithm. All search engines had to detect this, to determine in an automated fashion (because the web is waaaay too big) when to ignore that crap. And in a related issue.... spam. Fifteen years ago, guys like me were trying to fight it using regular expressions to filter our inbox (Spamassassin). It was a losing battle, even then. We've needed the very best machine learning to try to keep our heads above water. The spammers are constantly improving what they're doing too. The search engine looks the same (simple one-line text box), but the infrastructure behind it has vastly changed, and continues to rapidly evolve. Go read the Spanner and F1 papers... that stuff certainly didn't exist at all when Google started.
gh-lfneu28 11y ago
> In 15 years when the search engine have failed to evolve because Google is a monopoly and has no incentive to keep improving it - Google improves all the time (source: I have access to the search quality measurements) - In all major countries they have someone trying to catch up to them and take their place - In some major countries they are not even in the lead Things can change in 15 years by the trends are not pointing downwards currently.

SwellJoe 11y ago

I'm confident there will come a day when I'm ranting about Google and their anti-competitive practices (and not just, or even most importantly, on the search engine front) and rent-seeking. Google will be scary when they achieve the soulless status of T or VZ.

greglindahl 11y ago

Uh, some of us started complaining about search engines failing to evolve a decade ago, guess we were before our time! Or at least too early to market.

ansible 11y ago

In 15 years when the search engine have failed to evolve because Google is a monopoly and has no incentive to keep improving it, you may have a different perspective. LOL, Wut? I don't think you appreciate what it takes to maintain and improve a search engine these days. For example... Remember when link farms were big? They were doing this to boost their score for the existing PageRank algorithm. All search engines had to detect this, to determine in an automated fashion (because the web is waaaay too big) when to ignore that crap. And in a related issue.... spam. Fifteen years ago, guys like me were trying to fight it using regular expressions to filter our inbox (Spamassassin). It was a losing battle, even then. We've needed the very best machine learning to try to keep our heads above water. The spammers are constantly improving what they're doing too. The search engine looks the same (simple one-line text box), but the infrastructure behind it has vastly changed, and continues to rapidly evolve. Go read the Spanner and F1 papers... that stuff certainly didn't exist at all when Google started.

gh-lfneu28 11y ago

> In 15 years when the search engine have failed to evolve because Google is a monopoly and has no incentive to keep improving it - Google improves all the time (source: I have access to the search quality measurements) - In all major countries they have someone trying to catch up to them and take their place - In some major countries they are not even in the lead Things can change in 15 years by the trends are not pointing downwards currently.