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Opinion
Evans: The internet is moving beyond Google's PageRank and web pages
“As a consequence, we've also moved on from the single unified paradigm of Google, because Google is fundamentally about analyzing links and sending you to web pages, but if the internet is no longer just about web pages, then that PageRank model breaks down, j…”
Benedict Evans Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 11:35 Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
Insight
Evans: Digital maps are the PageRank equivalent for the physical world
“The way that I think about maps are sort of, is that maps are kind of page rank for the real world.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:43 a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: PageRank is only one of 900 factors in Google search
“It's one of, like, PageRank is, like, one of, like, 900 factors now that go into a Google search result. The other 899 happened after they left Stanford.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:37 a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
Insight
Evans: Location data is the PageRank of the physical world
“I think there's a, there's an analogue when you look at what's happening with all the companies that are bidding for Nokia's here maps at the moment, that location in a sense is page rank for the real world.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:07 a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
Opinion
Evans: Mobile app stores remain in a pre-PageRank discovery phase
“We're kind of in a pre-pagerank phase for how people discover and engage stuff online. That's to say an app store now looks a lot like it looks a lot like Yahoo, right, two years ago.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:35 a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
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