Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012)
by graycat on Saturday May 20, 2017 @04:16PM
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At its core, Google remains what it originally was, a computer science library project, basically a computer version of a library card catalog subject index with results sorted by a gross measure of popularity. So, as for a subject index, it's searching by key words. Okay.
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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012)
by ccvannorman on Saturday May 20, 2017 @04:17PM
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it's easy to minimize Google's accomplishment, but doing this at scale in a useful way and monetizing through advertising was revolutionary and has added billions of dollars of value to the market.
Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012)
by graycat on Saturday May 20, 2017 @08:46PM
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I didn't want to "minimize" but just to characterize and clarify. I'm not being critical or objecting and did end with "okay".
Page and Brin were right on the problem and the solution for the time.
While I want my startup to be still more successful, I'll thrilled if it is as successful as what Page and Brin did.