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Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

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Re: Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

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Post by chwahoo »

itswindy wrote: post #12

"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users," so let's make some more money. Let's not send visitors to sites anymore! Brilliant!

I'm having a hard time parsing your post. The passage you quoted concerns cases where advertisers might not like the material on sites that rank highly in search results.

> so let's make some more money. Let's not send visitors to sites anymore!

You seem to be accusing Google of something, but I can't tell what. (Google sends me to sites all the time. I'm also not aware of accusations that advertisers affect results.)

Re: Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

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Post by itswindy »

chwahoo wrote: post #31
itswindy wrote: post #12

"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users," so let's make some more money. Let's not send visitors to sites anymore! Brilliant!

I'm having a hard time parsing your post. The passage you quoted concerns cases where advertisers might not like the material on sites that rank highly in search results. > so let's make some more money. Let's not send visitors to sites anymore! You seem to be accusing Google of something, but I can't tell what. (Google sends me to sites all the time. I'm also not aware of accusations that advertisers affect results.…

Google sends me to sites all the time

The trend is your friend, but understand that ads look similar to normal results to many people.

I'm also not aware of accusations that advertisers affect results.)

Use your imagination or ask Larry and Sergey what they mean by it,

Re: Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

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Post by silverbax88 »

andrewtbham wrote: post #30
silverbax88 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, sort of like Michael Jordan playing baseball.

jordan actually could have been a great baseball player. there is a documentary about it and people who were initially very skeptical eventually changed their mind. he would have gone to the majors, but there was a strike. this example is more in the camp of hire great people if you can.

That's really overstating Jordan's future as a baseball player. Jordan was never seriously considered a major league player.

He's much closer to being a pro golfer than a major league baseball player.

Re: Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

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Post by itswindy »

joe_bloggs wrote: post #19
itswindy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Search makes no money at all. But adsense does. Adsense relatively makes little since they pay most to site-owners, whatever they call the ads on Google make the money. After 11 years has, Google has what, other than search?

Yep! What have the Romans ever done for us?

Google can disappear tomorrow and Bing, Blekko and DDG can take over. Webmasters will get more traffic since all have way less ads than Google, and that's about it. You know what happened after the fall of the Roman empire, do you?

Re: Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

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Post by detst »

silverbax88 wrote: post #34
andrewtbham wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

jordan actually could have been a great baseball player. there is a documentary about it and people who were initially very skeptical eventually changed their mind. he would have gone to the majors, but there was a strike. this example is more in the camp of hire great people if you can.

That's really overstating Jordan's future as a baseball player. Jordan was never seriously considered a major league player. He's much closer to being a pro golfer than a major league baseball player.

This is getting way OT but I can assure you the odds of him becoming even an occasional PGA Tour player are not even remotely as good as they were for him to make an MLB roster (of course, at the time he retired from basketball). If the GP is overstating, you are massively overstating his golfing abilities.

Re: Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

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Post by silverbax88 »

detst wrote: post #37
silverbax88 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's really overstating Jordan's future as a baseball player. Jordan was never seriously considered a major league player. He's much closer to being a pro golfer than a major league baseball player.

This is getting way OT but I can assure you the odds of him becoming even an occasional PGA Tour player are not even remotely as good as they were for him to make an MLB roster (of course, at the time he retired from basketball). If the GP is overstating, you are massively overstating his golfing abilities.

Ha ha you guys are killing me with this. I don't even know what to say, but, yeah, it's way OT at this point.

Re: Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

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Post by nmridul »

synnik wrote: post #5

Not to nitpick, but founding Google doesn't automatically qualify you for a job at any large company, as the article states. Not that I would refuse him a job... but it would require the same interview process as anyone, because I need to find out what he knows about my industry, what his current skills truly are, learn his philosophies, and find out how he would fit culturally. Even brilliant people are sometimes cr…

I would hire him just for the publicity. It will be worth every advertisement dollar ever spent..

Re: Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

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Post by [deleted] »

AndrewGCook wrote: post #2

I just heard Drew Houston of DropBox talk in Boston at StartupBootcamp and this resume rings true to what he said. The reality is that every founder starts in the same place and at the same point, which is completely clueless. Apple, Google, Yahoo, Oracle, Facebook and many others were started by first time founders in their 20’s. Facebook was just a project that Zuckerbug was hacking on, and he didn’t’ set out to re…

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