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>I'm a bit skeptical EU-funding a bunch of professors is the way a search engine will be built. Heh, so, funny story... >A second grant—the DARPA-NSF grant mo
by jjulius 4y ago
>I'm a bit skeptical EU-funding a bunch of professors is the way a search engine will be built.
Heh, so, funny story...
>A second grant—the DARPA-NSF grant most closely associated with Google’s origin—was part of a coordinated effort to build a massive digital library using the internet as its backbone. Both grants funded research by two graduate students who were making rapid advances in web-page ranking, as well as tracking (and making sense of) user queries: future Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
>The research by Brin and Page under these grants became the heart of Google: people using search functions to find precisely what they wanted inside a very large data set.
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/ https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
- dizhn 4y agoSplitting when the project looks like it's gonna make money is the American way. (Thanks for the public funds. khaaa chingg)
- google234123 4y agoThey did a lot more good by making a company rather than sticking around in academia and publishing a few extra papers.
- Xeoncross 4y agousername checks out
- pantalaimon 4y agoI see this a lot in a project I'm involved with where the majority of contributors are from academia. The incentive is to mostly push novel things, often with questionable practicability, in order to write a paper about it. But nobody will implement the 'boring' features needed to make the thing generally useful.
- permo-w 4y agonot that I support this approach, but the return on public investment there is clearly huge
- ddorian43 4y agoThe best remote+paying job that I've ever seen online was from a Darpa project (memex project, about search engines). $180K - $250K+. This was ~5 years ago. Curious what the salaries will be on this one.