Monday, February 17, 2003

Larry Page: Google Was an Accident

Larry Page: Google Was an Accident
The InternetPosted by Hemos on Monday February 17, @11:43AM
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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Some of his comments, especially about wanting to deal with annotations are especially enlightening in the face of the Blogger purchase.  Weblogs can and do, among other things, act as annotations to the web. 


12:41:19 PM    comment []  

Harvard weblogs - A directory of weblogs at Harvard.  This is the beginning of the Berkman weblog project being run by Dave Winer.  I hope this is one Berkman project that really takes off.
6:10:50 AM    comment []  

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