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It's you who is missing the point. Google was not "yet another search engine", they invented something new, which gave them the edge. You keep talking about th
by rorrr 15y ago
It's you who is missing the point. Google was not "yet another search engine", they invented something new, which gave them the edge.
You keep talking about the future possibilities, but you fail to point out what gives this particular project that edge. What is it?
- nostrademons 15y agoFWIW, PageRank is a relatively minor component of the ranking algorithm (I dunno why people latch onto it...maybe because it's a public, patented, easy soundbite), and the core Google ranking algorithm was entirely rewritten by Amit Singhal in 2001. The ranking edge that most people associate with Google wasn't even written when Google got its funding, and its inventor hadn't yet been hired.
- akkartik 15y agoI don't follow. Wasn't Larry Page the inventor of PageRank? And didn't he make it while still at Stanford?
- nostrademons 15y agoI'm saying that PageRank isn't the ranking edge that Google is famous for, and that if you applied the ranking algorithm as invented by Larry and Sergey to the web (even the web at the time, before everyone started to game Google), it would suck. It might suck a bit less than AltaVista, which was why they got funded, but it's not at all the quality that people have come to associate with Google.
- akkartik 15y agoAh. When you say 'the edge Google is famous for' I think of PageRank.
- nostrademons 15y agoExactly.
- swah 15y agoI think folks enjoy thinking that something they can also understand (like PageRank) was the reason Google was successful...