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Isn't that a little like saying Google is a copy and paste of Alta Vista?

• cymetica 12y ago
  If I can copy and paste what you're thinking, then yes. Otherwise, nope. Too hard to tell what's underlying the code in the case of a search engine, machine learning or artificial intelligence system. Large difference between the code behind intelligent algorithms and text entry boxes with DB calls. BBSs, TheWell, Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, TheGlobe, Geocities, Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, what's next? Fill in the blank I guess. DMOZ, Yahoo, HotBot, WebCrawler, AllTheWeb, Excite, AltaVista, Lycos, Google, what's next? Too hard to tell. Google was founded on principles in artificial intelligence and now has a good handle on how to implement portions of AI along with all the other things they're doing. Facebook was founded by a guy who was a voyeur and called its users "dumb f*cks" for giving out personal information while rocking a biz card that said "I'm CEO, bitch!". Big difference and big difference in revenue too.
  • rajacombinator 12y ago
    Actually what Google does is fairly trivial and not based on "artificial intelligence" ...
    • orbifold 12y ago
      Well it is no longer trivial at scale and I'm pretty sure they've moved beyond the Page Rank algorithm long ago.
    • cymetica 12y ago
      To call what Google does "trivial" kind of ends this thread.