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One of Google's cofounders once said that if there is more than one search result then that is a bug. That sort of thinking inevitably leads to this sort of thi
by ilovetux 8y ago
One of Google's cofounders once said that if there is more than one search result then that is a bug. That sort of thinking inevitably leads to this sort of thing. There are always shades of grey.
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- cryoshon 8y agoyikes, i really hope they are not so shortsighted these days. a lot of the time people are searching for something, they do not know exactly what they are looking for enough to articulate the perfect string of search terms and need a plate of more general results to get to what they want... this seems painfully obvious.
- 1123581321 8y agoPage and Brin are saying that they want to deliver that specific final result even when someone starts off not knowing what they’re looking for by using context and their user data to understand what the search is really about. Not that they want to deliver one general result when someone makes a general query. I’m not necessarily agreeing; just explaining their thinking.
- ilovetux 8y agoHere is an article citing a Charlie Rose interview from 2005. https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/an-old-eric-schmidt-interview-reveals-googles-end-game-for-search-and-competition/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/an-old-eric-schmidt-interv...