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It also depends on what kind of hard problems you are tackling. YouTube solved the video codec Gordian knot, Google did the same with relevant search. Not easy
by aschobel 18y ago
It also depends on what kind of hard problems you are tackling.
YouTube solved the video codec Gordian knot, Google did the same with relevant search. Not easy problems, but they have huge benefits.
- unalone 18y agoExactly. Those are resultant problems from a fairly simple opening idea. YouTube: how can we put video online? Google: how can we make searches relevant? And, while the details are usually tricky, I find that Google's solutions to problems tend to always be brilliantly simple. Like their translate features: they figure out a basic problem and they solve it simply and often unexpectedly. Calling it a Gordion knot is actually the perfect description, yeah.