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I tend to imagine that year-2005 Google search is a tutorial-level web app today. Was Google search 15 years ago really bad by today's standards? With my biase
by nlitened 6y ago
I tend to imagine that year-2005 Google search is a tutorial-level web app today. Was Google search 15 years ago really bad by today's standards?
With my biases, I remember that Google search was pretty good by 2005 (and much more predictable and configurable than nowadays). Why is there almost no competition and innovation in this space, apart from rebranding Bing search as Duck Duck Go?
- aembleton 6y agoBecause it is very hard to build an index with the size of the web.
- nlitened 6y agoI don’t think so. If there are 5 billion pages on the internet, one could have a compressed 1KB-per-page index of the entire internet on a single consumer-grade computer in their bedroom in 2020. Size of the web should not be an issue, in my opinion :(