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What is now a long time ago, Google indexed the web properly. At that time it was an unparalleled feat of engineering. They solved scalability. They also manage
by craigsmansion 8y ago
What is now a long time ago, Google indexed the web properly. At that time it was an unparalleled feat of engineering. They solved scalability. They also managed to do this without sliding into "portal" territory and won their search dominance fair and square.
FB never did anything but being at the right place at the right time and were pretty nefarious from the very start. If any innovation can be claimed to have come out of FB, it's new ways of large scale psychological manipulation.
I suspect it's the memory of those early Google years that make some more lenient towards Google, although at this point, they really shouldn't be.
- angf 8y agoYour comment is wrong in so many ways. React, Cassandra, OoenCompute, PyTorch, GraphQL: where did these come from? Facebook. Facebook has had to pull off their own feats of engineering. It is a fact whether you like their product or not. I work for FB. I am leaving for my own personal reasons. It is not a perfect company. Your comment, however, is wrong and I am calling it out as such.
- craigsmansion 8y agoI'm sure these are all fine pieces of software, and good on facebook for giving their smart people useful busywork to distract them from asking themselves the hard questions, but did any of these make possible the as of yet impossible and propel them to their current status? Because as things appear, FB was a myspace for grown-ups at a time when there was a need for such a service, that is, the right time and the right place, and technology-wise there was nothing extraordinary about the service itself. > It is a fact whether you like their product or not. I like their product just fine. I just wish more of them held their privacy in higher regard.