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In other words, avoid spending money, refine your algorithms first. Faster machines may be tempting, but that makes scaling horribly expensive down the road.
by iwwr 16y ago
In other words, avoid spending money, refine your algorithms first. Faster machines may be tempting, but that makes scaling horribly expensive down the road.
- jamesaguilar 16y agoFollowing our own advice is hard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil
- iwwr 16y agoWow, the same Anna Patterson. I don't understand how Cuil became such a disaster. Even early Google seemed alright.
- jseliger 16y agoI don't either, and I'd love to know who does and whether they've written about it.
- p01nd3xt3r 16y agoI tink that Cuil became a disaster because Gogle existed. When google came out it was easily 10x better than what was currently on the market. The same cant be same for cuil.
- tsktsk 16y agoearly Google wasn't up against the level of SEO spam and nonsense that exists today.
- ot 16y agoFrom another article in the home page today (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/24/ex.google.employees/ http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/24/ex.google.employe...): But abandoning Google hasn't always proved to be a wise or permanent move. Anna Patterson left the company in 2007 to start a rival search engine called Cuil. When that tanked, she returned to Google in September.