This simple web page offers so many lessons, can you spot them all? Hat tip to Stephen Dubner, who amazingly continues to get better and better as a blogger.
The Genesis of Innovation
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Why do I have this eerie feeling while looking at this, as though I’ve been transported through time to witness some historical event? I keep trying to convince my girlfriend of this–that on this page are the seeds of a hitherto unimaginable revolution.
This too, after she just came back from a Google recruiting resume drop at Harvard. She said that it was a zoo, the room overflowed with applicants and the Google reps, with their open collar button downs and wind-breakers, had no idea how to handle it. So they threw down the corporate credit card at Cambridge One and invited everyone to drinks.
huh?? i’m too dumb to see it I guess.
ten years ago, he had a good idea, coupled with doing research under the supervision of some of the best profs. then he had friends who worked on similar problems. i mean, really, everyine in data mining was doing the same stuff and no one could see the innovative potential in it. a hundred companies doing market basketing/correlations/collaborative filtering have succeeded and failed to make a fortune; a thousand have failed entirely.
google succeeded because of more than an idea.
as ideas go, it was still rthe implementatino ones that made them rich. even more important than page rank or data mining was the database/filesystem solution, which isn’t shown on this page. it was that idea that made google fast, and fast enough to crerate real time ads.
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