Google would've been doomed...
How so?
"Even the first Google search algorithm was hardly a "simple solution"...."
And who else was going to try to build a better search engine, rather than just another search engine with more traffic?
Can you say this about your startup?
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Re: Can you say this about your startup?
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
How so?
"Even the first Google search algorithm was hardly a "simple solution"...." And who else was going to try to build a better search engine, rather than just another search engine with more traffic?
A simple solution means "simple to the user" not for the programmer. One Google query might take hundreds of servers to process and bring back millions of pages but frankly I do not care much as long as I get my result in less than a second after I hit SEARCH. It's easy to Me.
Re: Can you say this about your startup?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds to me exactly like Google was.
Even the first Google search algorithm was hardly a "simple solution"....
Well I don't think the search algorithm is the simple part of Google.
One example of a simple solution PG used was Viaweb. Viaweb's source code is analogous to Google's search algorithm in that case. I think in the context of that article the user-facing part of Viaweb (and Google) is the simple part.
"Software, to them, equalled big, honking Windows apps. Since Viaweb was the first web-based app they'd seen, it seemed to be nothing more than a website." [From Six Principles For Making New Things by pg]
Re: Can you say this about your startup?
#14no, yes, yes, yes, no, yes