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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. And Yahoo started as a Sumo resource by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Jerry Yang's original set of links was a Sumo wrestling enthusiast's page...that for a time was valued at $120 billion dollars (!).

  2. First mention of Google from Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here in Google groups..

    Now can someone find the first mention of searching Google looking for the first mention of Google in Google?

  3. There is something other than Google? by AsmordeanX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A friend of my brother-in-law was suprised to hear that there were other search engines in existance.

    He thought that Google was just a standard, like HTML, FTP, Gopher, or NNTP.

    That was quite the little accident they had.