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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. Re:NOW I understand their blog move by abiogenesis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It may soon be possible as Google recently purchased Blogger:

    http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmo r/ archives/000802.shtml

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