#google Search — How A Master’s Thesis Became An Idea Worth $70 Billion
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Google Search — How A Master’s Thesis Became An Idea Worth $70 BillionWhat most of you might know is that the Google Search that you currently know and use began as a Master’s thesis that Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked on back in 1996, that revolutionized the way people looked at search engines. However, what most do not know is that their initial idea was not to rank websites, rather to rank annotations on websites.“ One idea Page presented to Winograd, a collaboration with Brin, seemed more promising than the others: creating a system where people could make annotations and comments on websites. But the more Page thought about annotation, the messier it got. How would you figure out who gets to comment or whose comment would be the one you’d see first? For that, he says, “We needed a (...)
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