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Google would've been doomed...

• rokhayakebe 18y ago
  How so?
  • dbrush 18y ago
    "Even the first Google search algorithm was hardly a "simple solution"...." And who else was going to try to build a better search engine, rather than just another search engine with more traffic?
    • rokhayakebe 18y ago
      A simple solution means "simple to the user" not for the programmer. One Google query might take hundreds of servers to process and bring back millions of pages but frankly I do not care much as long as I get my result in less than a second after I hit SEARCH. It's easy to Me.
• ksvs 18y ago
  Sounds to me exactly like Google was.
  • lacker 18y ago
    Even the first Google search algorithm was hardly a "simple solution"....
    • kwamenum86 18y ago
      Well I don't think the search algorithm is the simple part of Google. One example of a simple solution PG used was Viaweb. Viaweb's source code is analogous to Google's search algorithm in that case. I think in the context of that article the user-facing part of Viaweb (and Google) is the simple part. "Software, to them, equalled big, honking Windows apps. Since Viaweb was the first web-based app they'd seen, it seemed to be nothing more than a website." [From Six Principles For Making New Things by pg]