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 …
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.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Google bought youtube less than 5 years after its IPO, more than a decade ago. I think they'd _already_ replaced pagerank by then?
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The concept (scoring based on attacker-controlled inputs) has never been replaced, though there have been many iterations and perhaps names.
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Just as web browsers display attacker controlled data. Clearly browsers should only display data bundled with the browser, no net access.
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Displaying != trusting. The problem is making decisions that have social and economic and political effects based on potentially malicious input without accounting for malice...
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...specifically in the case of Google, intentionally without a way to tell the computer the input is malicious when it's too dumb to figure that out on its own.
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What Google did, every time they discovered new forms of malicious input, was to wait for them to be widely exploited then wait til they could generalize a rule to stop it while maintaining their belief in impartiality.
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If they'd instead just manually delisted offenders early and started making rules to flag potential copycats asap, many of the techniques would never have taken off. Lots of resources spent designing new attack, minimal payoff.
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And by controlling the ad market & delaying payouts, they could have revoked ad earnings and made the payoff zero.
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