17 Nov
2012
17 Nov
'12
7:09 a.m.
On 17/11/12 6:27 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:42:18 +0000
Dave Wade<dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
Sold and abandoned just like DEC, as I
wrote...
Interesting question: Would google have happened if Altavista wherent
ruined?
Yes, because Google made the paradigmatic leap (MapReduce) that all its
competitors [almost inexplicably] failed to make.
http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html
This is not to say MapReduce is 100% original, but somehow in Google's
architecture and implementation, they hit all the right buttons and
changed the game.
--Toby
Ohhh,
Altavista! The mother of all Web search engines. I used it a lot
back in its days. A shame that it went down the drain with DEC...
I don't
think it did, it was sold and abandoned just in front of the
steam roller that is google, very sad...