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Larry Page: Google Was an Accident

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-men dept.

DarklordJonnyDigital writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Google founder Larry Page has admitted that the Google project wasn't originally intended to be a search engine at all. "It wasn't that we intended to build a search engine. We built a ranking system to deal with annotations." ' Of course, happy accidents have often been the cause for advancement, technologically or otherwise.

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  1. no kidding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'll bet Jon Katz was an accident too

  2. in related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Rob Malda's parents admitted that CmdrTaco was an accident.


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    "We didn't use protection," his mother chimed in. "After all, who ever heard of getting pregnant from anal sex?


    "That was my idea," said Mr. Malda. "I was afraid the bag would fall of her head."