Strategic Innovation, Technology

If you don’t remember it, that’s fine, because Standford still hosts it’s textual coming out party.

Visit the document “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” and be wowed.

Its concluding sentiment will bring a tear to any nerd’s eye (or webcam implant):

Because humans can only type or speak a finite amount, and as computers continue improving, text indexing will scale even better than it does now. Of course there could be an infinite amount of machine generated content, but just indexing huge amounts of human generated content seems tremendously useful. So we are optimistic that our centralized web search engine architecture will improve in its ability to cover the pertinent text information over time and that there is a bright future for search.

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