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>Google was based on a couple of brilliant ideas (Page rank, text-only ads, massive parallel implementation on cheap hardware) but none of those ideas were orig
by rortian 16y ago
>Google was based on a couple of brilliant ideas (Page rank, text-only ads, massive parallel implementation on cheap hardware) but none of those ideas were original with Larry or Sergey.
Wow. I didn't think someone would claim that Page rank was not an original idea of Larry and Sergey. It generally helps when you are writing a myth busting article to not invent your own.
- joshu 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliometrics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliometrics
- rortian 16y agoI'd be interested to know, but somehow I seriously doubt there were librarians taking eigenvalues of citation networks.
- rortian 16y agoYeah, nothing there or in related articles disputes the assertion that they invented PageRank. Sure, they did it in a community that was developing similar ideas, but they built and developed it.