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Larry Page: Google Was an Accident
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.
Larry Page: "Keynote would be really outstanding if you had a fast machine to edit your presentations on." Smart-Ass: "A machine faster than those at the disposal of the founders of Google?" Larry Page: "You know what I mean: a machine faster than this laptop here."
This somehow reminds me of Kevin Spacey's character in the big Kahuna.
Am I the only one who remembers that Larry Page was the president/icon of the "Sticky Stuff Club" that appeared in ads for a certain brand of "glue-stick"?
God is real unless declared integer
lies a crime[, an accident, or technological shift]."
./ers are as informed about economics as they are about technology. There are more important issues than whether it's legal to hack DVD encryption.
Larry Page's statement is another data point supporting that statement.
(Remember, the keyword is "great". I'm not referring to people working hard at their jobs and getting promoted to a $130k/year job.)
Progressive taxation is fair!
Unfortunately, Reagan dropped the top federal rate from 70% to around 36%. Is anyone surprised at the growing gap between rich and poor since then?
I hope
Before google I actually had to go to a library to do research for school. I have to say researching is much more fun in PJ's. (Yes i do go to the library sometimes to verify sources :P)