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points 1, 4, 6 from the article could have been written in 1998 as well. how can 2 guys in a garage wipe out AltaVista, Lykos, and whoever else was doing sear
by bra-ket 13y ago
points 1, 4, 6 from the article could have been written in 1998 as well.
how can 2 guys in a garage wipe out AltaVista, Lykos, and whoever else was doing search back then (with lots of smart people, data, resources, state-of-the-art software and user adoption to compete against)?
What is missing is a serious discussion on search quality (which made Google Google).
If Larry and Sergey started today, would they be able to compete against Google by providing better search results,
or has search quality reached a "global maximum" of sorts?
Does search still suck?
- BryantD 13y agoAV made a substantial unforced error at exactly the wrong time which resulted in a huge drop in search quality. It wasn't as much a matter of better algorithms as one might think. There's also a pretty big difference in scale. The AV team working on search in 2000 wasn't all that big.