Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by Retric on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:08PM (#26010135)

Yes, the earliest directories / search engines worked extremely well in large part because there minimal content. When there where 7 knitting websites they don’t need to worry about SEO. It was only after the users started getting hundreds of results for most searches that search engines needed to worry about filtering and prioritization.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by pmiller2 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:14PM (#26021008)

Here's a great example of why search engines started using more sophisticated examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Google_bombs_in_the_...

People started to understand how PageRank worked, and managed to get George W. Bush's official biography page at whitehouse.gov to the top of the search for "miserable failure." As I recall, this worked until at least 2008, maybe a couple years past that.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by pmiller2 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:47PM (#26022358)

Whoops. s/examples/algorithms/

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