Setting User-Agent Field? (1996)

Re:Setting User-Agent Field? (1996) by hyperpallium2 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:03AM (#25671819)

Also, he understood linear algebra's eigenvalues and eigenvectors well enough to apply them to that problem for pagerank. So it's then second year math/engineering students who should be comparing themselves...

[ Counterpoint: some argue that pagerank wasn't as important as google's ad-free front-page (not a "portal"), and superfast results (thanks to Sergey) - but even if so, "The Algorithm" impressed Stanford, Sun co-founder investor, talented employees and early nerd users. ]

BTW as for programming, it seems Scott Hassan "wrote much of the code for the original Google Search engine." https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

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Re:Setting User-Agent Field? (1996) by cmrdporcupine on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:21AM (#25672036)

I used Google in 1997 and set it as my home page, etc. and it was almost certainly the fast response and ad-free page that got me, more than the results. The results were good, but not uncanny or mind blowing. Also had a great vibe of "geekiness," kind of still old-school Internet in a time when the web was going in another direction very quickly.

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Re:Setting User-Agent Field? (1996) by _jal on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:56AM (#25673536)

> kind of still old-school Internet in a time when the web was going in another direction very quickly

Oh, they had great marketing. Some of it was even true.

Too bad they became that other direction.

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