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Clearly this model no longer works. Bell labs had 11 nobel prize winners. What did Google invent? Slightly better generative neural networks whose offsprings no
by fsh 2y ago
Clearly this model no longer works. Bell labs had 11 nobel prize winners. What did Google invent? Slightly better generative neural networks whose offsprings now pollute their search results?
- fecal_henge 2y agoGoogle invented the ability to put an animated Gif inside a spreadsheet cell.
- nick__m 2y agowith COM and OLE, this was possible in excel on win3.11 !
- GauntletWizard 2y agoYou could interpret this the other way - Why has Jeff Dean been snubbed by the Nobel committee? Why hasn't Larry Page gotten a Nobel for inventing the search technology that half the planet now depends on? I don't know what category to put that one in, but there's some important results in lightspeed-limited communications in "The Datacenter as a Computer" that would be worth extending the Physics category for.
- apercu 2y ago"search technology" Google is an advertising company, search is a by-product and has been for a long time.
- ta1243 2y agoAbout 20 years ago it wasn't, and Google's pagerank stuff was revolutionary and potentially nobel prize worthy (no idea, I'm not a scientist)
- apercu 2y agoIt was better search than other search options at the time, but was quickly an advertising company. It's also too bad that that it was so dominant early, because there used to be 4-5 search Enginess and their results were very different and you could find things in non-google results that you couldn't get from google (and vice versa). You're not wrong, but it didn't last. Google jumped the shark in its first decade. I remember giving an internal presentation in 2010 or 2012 about how little of the screen real estate in a Google search result was actually search results.
- laborcontract 2y agoindexing against Nobel prizes is like trying to use patents as a proxy for innovation
- fragmede 2y agoSpanner is one thing I'd say they invented but they built a whole bunch of really neat stuff in order to be able to run search, back in 1998. that they're this behemoth conglomerate that it's cool to hate on doesn't erase the fact that they had to build all sorts of new things when they were just starting out.
- novia 2y agoTwo of Google's researchers are getting the Nobel prize for AlphaFold2 this year.