How long before the average new laptop has more power than Google when it first came online? Has it happened already?
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google was kinda crappy when it first came online compared to today. It only looked good on smaller dataset and vs. altavista
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90% of the time I'm looking for something online, it's something I've seen before, or same author, right? Real personalization.
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what do you feel about google's personalized search? (i find it frustrating, i want what anyone else would see.)
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I'd like personalized search if a) I could toggle it on/off b) it was based on more than Google+ (no FB = useless)
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Store *everything* your web browser has seen, locally on your machine, encrypted. Use that as search keys. Remember...
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That would actually be a somewhat different product and UX than "search." More like life log. You are what you see
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. Google's hardware spend per person is $5 a year or something. Your computer can work *far* harder on your stuff than them
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. Set your machine running over night to hard-grind your total history vs. what's newly published on the web, and add...
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. encrypted recommendations from friends, so you can tally what's popular among your peers without knowing who's read what.
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. The bottom line is that there's lots of computation Google can't do because it doesn't amortize the cost across users.
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. We could do that computation for ourselves, and they won't be able to match us. Relocalization by brute computer power.
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