Saved by sari
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
It was Brin’s mathematic calculations on those possible 500 million variables that identified the important pages.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
One of the early versions of BackRub had simply counted the incoming links, but Page and Brin quickly realized that it wasn’t merely the number of links that made things relevant. Just as important was who was doing the linking.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Google Adwords changed all of that. That, as well as free weblog hosting, fuelled the blogging bubble. You wrote a blog using a weblog system that came with decent SEO baked in (semantic structure and cross-linking, that’s all you needed back then). Most of your traffic came from Google’s search results. All of your revenue came from Google’s Adwor... See more
Baldur Bjarnason • The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
I suspect billions of people will be happy to receive their answers to complicated queries directly on the search results page, uninterested in where the information comes from, so long as it’s accurate enough.
But to everyone who depended even a little bit on web search to have their business discovered, or their blog post read, or their journalism... See more
But to everyone who depended even a little bit on web search to have their business discovered, or their blog post read, or their journalism... See more