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The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
Hal Varian, by the way, is the person who designed the Google ad auction. And it turned out he was only partially right about “information managers”. We call them influencers. But it was aggregators like Google that did the bulk of the heavy lifting. Computers can scale in ways that people can’t.
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
Larry Page and Sergey Brin had figured out how to mine that knowledge before the information retrieval establishment and commercial search engines even realized that it existed.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique Search Engines
mirror.xyzsariazout.mirror.xyzThey surmised that these links could be used to build an index of all the content out there—one where the “best” page on a given topic was the one that had the most other pages linking to it.