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It was totally low hanging fruit. Try building a search engine today. The barriers to entry are much harder. Finding useful sites and filtering out spam are muc
by statictype 4y ago
It was totally low hanging fruit. Try building a search engine today. The barriers to entry are much harder. Finding useful sites and filtering out spam are much more difficult now than when Google started. The signal to noise ratio on the internet has plummeted.
This is what everyone thought in 1999. Search engines were a solved problem in a crowded market where there could be little room for new contender
And whatever limitations we had in search were just inherent in how it all worked and we just had to deal with it.
- hahajk 4y agoThe existence and popularity of Dogpile was an admission that search engines were not solved yet. We just used all of them all at once understanding they were each imperfect.
- Breza 4y agoOh wow, I haven't thought about Dogpile in years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
- Retric 4y agoGoogle didn’t solve really search, it solved an at the time fairly new and related problem of low quality websites. Arguing about the inadequacy of early search engine in that context is like arguing that email clients in 1985 should have included spam filters.
- fallingknife 4y agoHow would you even start today? Your crawlers would be blocked from most of the internet.
- blitzar 4y ago> This is what everyone thought in 1999. Search engines were a solved problem in a crowded market We must have lived in different 1999's