IOW you could replace everything useful & legitimate Google does (indexing/search) with a single iPhone + moderately large external storage.https://twitter.com/justincormack/status/1008518299792142336 …
Even 100 iPhones is still just one bigass box or a single rack of reasonable ones. And modern Google doesn't seem to even index 1% of content, but happily indexes loads of SEO spam.
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Yes Maps and video are useful but outside the original scope of what we thought of as Google (see the followup QRT "cursed image").
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You _realize_ "I say this thing I've never done is much simpler than the people who do it for a living say" is Dunning-Kruger, right?
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You're misreading my original tweet as "I could replace Google". It's more like "Google search is not something unachievable without a many-billion-$ corp. Could be done with minimal computing resources, smallish company."
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The original tweet was a bit overstated on purpose, but the point is valid and one I wanted to make. Not many ppl realize 4+ nines of Google's resource usage are non-search and 2+ are adtech business.
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Spammers trying to game search engines are Google's fault, and the fix to email spam problem is to go back to sendmail on a 386...
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SEO spam is largely Google's fault. It goes back to a conscious choice to refuse to moderate, insistence on trusting that a universal scoring algorithm could work against active attackers.
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If they had a "if we catch bad-faith action to boost pagerank, you and everyone affiliated will be delisted forever" policy, it wouldn't have happened.
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Because nobody would ever hack a site to do 5 minutes of SEO to get a competitor removed forever. Clearly not gameable...
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This is not "5 minutes of SEO". It's sites whose only purpose is junk content. Started out with WP, SO, etc. scrapes. Now it's more advanced. It's not stuff you can quietly frame a competitor for.
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