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The future according to Google's Larry Page
- richbradshaw 14y agoFor some reason I read that as if there was a page on Google called Larry. Guess plenty of people made the same mistake with Page Rank though, so I don't feel too bad!
- dfxm12 14y agoThis is why proper grammar is important. With the correct capitalization of proper nouns, there is little room for ambiguity. Of course, that doesn't help in speech...
- drcube 14y agoWell, regular English words can also be used in or as proper nouns, like Pagerank (or if the title of a website at Google was "Google's Larry Page").
- lostlogin 14y agoEveryday I park at work by a sign saying: security camera's in operation. The daily reminder is good for me.
- Dove 14y agoThat parses. It just implies there's only one security camera. And you and the sign painter already know of and speak informally about it. And it's operating RIGHT NOW.
- lostlogin 14y agoHadn't thought of it like that. There aren't any cameras unfortunately. The spate of break ins was dealt with by installing a sign. A very proactive sign. Wonder what they will do to its punctuation if 2 cameras get installed...
- sjs382 14y agoYa know, I never even considered that PageRank was named after Larry.
- tribeofone 14y agoIt wasn't.
- habosa 14y agoYes it was: http://web.archive.org/web/20090424093934/http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html http://web.archive.org/web/20090424093934/http://www.google....
- lubujackson 14y agoExcept that it was, according to Google: "The first and most well known is PageRank, named for Larry Page (Google’s co-founder and CEO)." http://www.google.com/competition/howgooglesearchworks.html http://www.google.com/competition/howgooglesearchworks.html
- fwr 14y agoThe term "Web Page" was also coined in his honor.
- IvyMike 14y agoHe must have been aware of the convenient double meaning. We all know that if he had been born Larry Bartowski, it would not have been called BartowskiRank.
- tribeofone 14y agoRevisionist history. You don't want to know where they got the first name for it from...
- CletusTSJY 14y agoI can't wait for automated cars.
- gulbrandr 14y agoPlease do not post links with utm junk in the URL.
- rkudeshi 14y agoI know when you submit a link, HN will usually automatically omit the " - Site Name" part at the end of the title. Given the proliferation of FeedBurner links, why can't pg do the same to get rid of utm cruft?
- KnowledgeSponge 14y agoIs it really that big of an issue to let some site accurately track the source of their referral traffic? That's all UTM codes do by the way--it isn't anything nefarious.
- personlurking 14y agoIt seems to be more about the role of Page in the company than the future of Google. A lil' bit about driverless cars and Google Now but mostly on Page, his background and personality.
- Jabbles 14y agoGoogle's popular 20% time, which allowed many engineers to work on their own ideas one day a week, has been severely curtailed. What's happened to it?
- orangethirty 14y agoI guess some manager realized that they could improve productivity by up to 20% if the engineers focused on the official company projects.
- Zakuzaa 14y ago25%
- mserdarsanli 14y agoI think he implies that the manager is stupid
- orangethirty 14y agoNo, I do not. I imply that the manager does not understand the benefits of 20% time on productivity.
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- lubos 14y agooh my gosh...
- InclinedPlane 14y agoLet me spoil the joke: Going from 80% to 100% is a 25% increase.
- orangethirty 14y ago
- alexpopescu 14y agoThe clean link: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/03/google-larry-page/ http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/03/google-larry-page/
- josh_fyi 14y agoLarry is a smart guy, his success is proven, and he has the resources to make the future happen. But don't put too much weight on his prediction. Real innovation usually comes from unexpected places. Historically, predictions of technology big-shots are not as accurate as the tech press seems to think.
- alexpopescu 14y agoI'm half way through the article... and I still haven't figured out what the future looks like. Anyone could summarize it here?
- zanny 14y agoWell, we are only 2 years out from flying hovercars, auto-sizing clothes, the abolition of lawyers, reliable weather forcasts, and hoverboards. I'd also put my money in Universal, they have 15 Jaws movies to release in 2 years. That's gotta make some bank.
- cloudsteam 14y agoand pepsi will dominate over coke
- TommyDANGerous 14y agoA self driving car. Google is positioned to do anything and everything. Love it.
- TommyDANGerous 14y agoThat was such a good and inspirational read. Google is awesome.
- gbog 14y agoI am more than ok with the self-driving car. This will really relieve us from a heavy and unsafe burden. Our grand kids in 50 years will wonder how we did foolishly let (almost) everyone drive so dangerous a killing machine. But I am not ok with most other directions Google seem to be looking at: - Voice control: Voice control maybe useful to do some hand-less complex configuration but it will always be awkward for normal operations of electronic tools. To push the comparison to its limits: one would not talk to one's screwdriver ("on the left, on the left, stop! on the right! get inside, turn right, euh no! I mean LEFT, counterclockwise..."), one will always prefer tools with direct interaction and feedback. Moreover, in most situations, using voice or sound to communicate is just adding noise to already noisy envs (eg on a plane, train, during meetings. etc). A factory robot or a plane cockpit have full-fledged interfaces, with knobs and screens and all, but none will use voice control or even sound feedback except for the most urgent and intrusive warning notifications. Even the navigation voice telling me to "turn left in 100 meters" is too intrusive, because maybe at the same time I am talking with someone in the car. A soft "bzzz" on the wheel to remind me to check the navigation screen should be enough. As anyone has experienced, the voice robot "press one for x, press two for y" is a very good subject for jokes, because it is borderline unbearable: both too slow and too fast, both too rigid and not solid enough. With touchscreens in everyone pocket, I bet these usability nightmares will be replaced with apps or websites. So, in all, voice control, Siri and Google Now seem to be technological dead-ends. It will probably be similar to alchemy however: it is wrong to try to make gold out of mud, but it was the seed of Chemistry. - Guess my wishes: I think the "Fairy Godmother" better stay fairy tale. Human beings have shown enough they do not like to be catered like a crowd of sheep. History books are full of revolutions against entities willing to "guess the wishes", from the Catholic Church, to communism, to feudalism. Always in the name of Freedom, and freedom is best felt when you have "unguessable wishes". If Google buys me plane tickets to Sri Lanka because it has detected it was the most suitable destination for my tastes, I probably will cancel the tickets and turn off Google Travel Prescience, because I want this choice to be mine. I know I am getting a bit too far, but I don't think most people really want their wishes to be guessed. Everyone hopes to be unique, and choose one's life, and decide one's fate. This is the feeling of one's freedom and guessing wishes would just kill it. Or, the "suggestions" must be very careful in suggesting things and must be psychological enough to let you think that you did find the idea yourself. Just like a careful mother will transparently suggest to a kid something to do or not to do and at the same time will not hinder the kids' feeling of "free-will".