Interesting podcast which touches on this too: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report...
Google was founded 25 years ago today
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#92> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.
- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
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#93Interesting podcast which touches on this too: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report...
Tivo became a verb too but it only a tiny tiny as fraction as big of a company. I think found it convenient to say
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#95And their first data center contract on 28/09/1998
https://x.com/uhoelzle/status/1442040678167375877
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#96This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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#97And their first data center contract on 28/09/1998 https://x.com/uhoelzle/status/1442040678167375877
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#98And their first data center contract on 28/09/1998 https://x.com/uhoelzle/status/1442040678167375877
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#99Without commenting on the direction of the company in recent years and where it is today, I'll be forever grateful to Google for setting the standard for how tech companies need to treat their engineers.
People who have entered the industry in the last decade or two may not realize it, but the sky high salaries, stock grants, benefits, flexible work hours, free gourmet meals, stocked pantries, gym memberships and lots more that you enjoy every day are all thanks to Sergey and Larry in the early 00s wanting to build a Disneyland for nerds. They were so successful at it that the rest of the industry had no option but to emulate them. Being a software engineer was nowhere near as enticing a job pre-Google.
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#100> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. - Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
But fortunately market competition ensures that a higher-quality search engine is only ever a click away.
So the bar for quality search is always going to remain pretty high, in order not to simply go out of business.