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Google's idea wasn't "search engine", it was "page rank", which gave damn good query results. But some people have it in their best interest to trivialize any
by sbov 15y ago
Google's idea wasn't "search engine", it was "page rank", which gave damn good query results. But some people have it in their best interest to trivialize any idea, so I expect them to do this.
- 6ren 15y agoTrue, but did it cause their success? Clean search-only website (not a portal); fast results; no pay-for-rank: their idea was to help. (BTW: I'd love it if the algorithm won the day)
- ippisl 15y agoIn the book "in the plex" , the author says that the first demos of google were really impressive both for vc's and users, and it went viral in stanford. that was when they were fighting to get hardware to crawl the web , so their speed wasn't that amazing back than. So yes , the algorithm probably did won.
- 6ren 15y agoIn what way were the demos impressive? Not sure I follow: speed of crawling wouldn't affect speed of response; and having few users would enable it to be fast; not having enough hardware to index the entire web would only limit the results. Mind you, just making a search engine is impressive, esp back then.
- baddox 15y agoThe problem with this article's claim is that you can't precisely say what an entrepreneurs "idea" is. It's a problem of definition. What if facebook's idea was not simply to make a social network, but to make by far the largest social network in the world? In that case, their idea was paramount.