| ▲ | rco8786 7 hours ago | |||||||
Pretty sure that came after. And funding never made anyone smarter. | ||||||||
| ▲ | truthbe 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Funding didn’t make them smarter, but it did buy the hardware to scale it. Other guys had the exact same idea at the exact same time like RankDex and IBM's HITS algorithm. Google just got the cash first to actually build the server farms to run it. | ||||||||
| ▲ | SJC_Hacker 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
They used Stanfords existing infrastructure … I don’t think the grant they were on paid for it directly. Pretty sure the cluster was a resource shared by several labs | ||||||||
| ▲ | CPLX 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
> funding never made anyone smarter One of my favorite things about HN is the way that you can find someone who has produced definitive proof of the non-existence of the public education system in an offhand comment. | ||||||||
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