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I think to be the "google" of anything, you pretty much have to be good at search. That's what I thought the comparison would be. It's kind of like saying x i
by Ezra 18y ago
I think to be the "google" of anything, you pretty much have to be good at search. That's what I thought the comparison would be.
It's kind of like saying x is the Bill Gates of 1000. There are any number of things that could mean, but having more money than anyone else is the comparison that most would make. It's the one I'd expect most people to come up with.
Personally, I'd more closely relate it to Bell Labs, or Xerox PARC if I had to make a tech analogy. ie. they have someone to take care of the money, and all the associated stuff, and they just had to do heavy intellectual lifting, with no pressure to do things in a certain way, or be necessarily profitable, or directed.
But even that might be disingenuous, as I'm not sure what Cluny's hours of prayer have done for me, while Bell and PARC did incredible (tangible) things.
- rms 18y agoThey were good at "organizing the world's information."