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We know how Google's algorithm works in no small part because Larry and Sergey came up with it as part of their graduate studies at Stanford. Stanford owns the

by bjustin 14y ago

We know how Google's algorithm works in no small part because Larry and Sergey came up with it as part of their graduate studies at Stanford. Stanford owns the patent(s?) on it and made hundreds of millions licensing it to Google.

mbell 14y ago
You know how it worked ten years ago. Do you really think that has much to do with how it works today?
- iskander 14y ago
  As of four years ago (last time I had any meaningful contact with search quality people at Google), it was a very convoluted layer cake of diverse signals and carefully tuned heuristics.
  - codygman 14y ago
    I guess that's what they needed Go (golang) for.