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Know how you’ll find the next Google? Same way those of us over 45 found this one. A respected friend or colleague will tell you that the next Google just work
by mmaunder 5y ago
Know how you’ll find the next Google? Same way those of us over 45 found this one.
A respected friend or colleague will tell you that the next Google just works better. That’s what made Google search win: it just worked better. It’s now I found out about it and probably how you did if you’re pushing 50.
We didn’t care about pagerank or know what it is. That came after we used it and wanted to know why it worked better - or we wanted to manipulate he results.
We didn’t read a blog post telling us what’s good.
We were using another search engine and Google arrived on the scene and it was just WAY better. I was using alltheweb. Friends were using other engines. In weeks, everyone smart and productive was using Google.
Google/Alphabet may be a large company now, but never forget how they started. They were just so good we couldn’t ignore them.
That’s how good the next Google will need to be.
- elwell 5y agoI can still visualize a memory from my high school library, when my friend showed me Google search for the first time. I think I had been using Dogpile.
- redisman 5y agoI was a Altavista die-hard. Google was a great improvement. Honestly I think this is just asking the wrong question. In the world of walled gardens and industrial SEO I just don’t think a search engine will be the “next Google”
- mech422 5y agoI loved altavista query language.. For me, the draw in to Google was just the sheer size of the index.
- bduerst 5y agoSame. No more paging through aggregate results from different search engines.
- bduerst 5y agoThat's going to be conversational/NLP search. Curious to see how Andi plays out. The simplest explanation is the scene from from Wall-E with the captain of the ship discussing with the A.I. It will be fluently integrated in our everyday lives.