[opendtv] Re: 'Friends' Finale Delivers 51.1 Million Viewers
- From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:59:54 -0400
> > Kind of like saying "I don't understand what the big deal is
> > about this
> > Google thing...libraries have always had card catalogs!"
>
> Excellent comparison!
>
> I also marvel about the Google hype. You don't have to go back
> to the card catalogue to understand about better ways of
> searching. Did we all forget about Altavista, Yahoo, and
> Webcrawler? These were certainly three well-known search engines
> that were available long before Google, and that have no more in
> common with card catalogues than Google does.
>
> So this is what I don't get. The dynamic of hype.
Well except for a few facts. Like the fact that Yahoo has been using
Google for search technology, but just dropped them to use their own
(previously-aquired Inktomi - which itself feeds AOL, Hotbot, and MSN
search - with modifications and ideas gleamed from Altavista and
others). This is a tangled web but I think I've got it right. Microsoft
desperately wants to be up there with Google, and Yahoo just by its
nature is in the same boat. All the rest have fallen overboard --
AltaVista and Webcrawler - they died in part due to the fact that they
didn't spider the web frequently enough to refresh their search
database. Others died because they got greedy, or couldn't decide if
they wanted to be a portal or search site (Lycos).
As for card catalogs vs. google -- I'm sorry, but you can't even begin
to compare the two. Sure, car wheels can be made out of solid steel if
we wanted to (its round, same difference, right?), but that would just
be stupid.
Cheers
Kon
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