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 …
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Replying to @RichFelker
Dunning Kruger alert: for an internet with <1% the size of the modern one at maybe 30% coverage, english-only, no maps, no video...
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Replying to @landley
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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Replying to @RichFelker @landley
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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Replying to @RichFelker
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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Replying to @landley
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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