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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 9:06 David Rosenthal I mean, if you squint, PageRank, the PageRank algorithm that Google was founded upon, is a statistical method.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:59:03 Ben Gilbert That is, by definition, the PageRank algorithm is a core technology insight.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:15 David Rosenthal Hence, page rank.
- ▶ 19:19 Ben Gilbert It is ironic that the things that were being ranked were web pages, because the actual page in page rank is named for Larry Page, not for the pages they would rank.
- ▶ 20:03 David Rosenthal And thus, at least the germ of the idea for PageRank as we all know it today is born.
- ▶ 21:23 David Rosenthal So, we're almost all the way there to the huge leap that would become PageRank and BackRub and ultimately Google, but there's still one missing piece.
- ▶ 23:29 David Rosenthal So there's one more thing to making this brilliant PageRank idea work, which is a little problem, which is that the way the web is architected, any given web page only shows outgoing links.
- ▶ 25:52 David Rosenthal And Larry writes the first implementation of PageRank and the crawler to go do this.
- ▶ 27:07 David Rosenthal They're thinking of backrub as just a implementation of a crawler and the page rank algorithm.
- ▶ 34:20 Ben Gilbert Yeah, and I mean, when he says we talk to others, they tried to sell PageRank to Yahoo for one million dollars and were rejected, and there's gonna be chapters of this story that you can mark by the different times that Yahoo discussed…
- ▶ 51:11 David Rosenthal Today, people think about PageRank and Google and the innovation and the ranking and the relevancy.
- ▶ 59:24 David Rosenthal One is accurate, relevant, fast search results and page rank and everything we've been covering.
- ▶ 1:02:32 David Rosenthal Index that they needed to build and operate on for the search engine for PageRank to work was so much bigger than any other index out there.
- ▶ 2:02:22 Ben Gilbert Bill thought it was a match made in heaven, so Google's got the best way to bring relevant organic search with PageRank.
- ▶ 2:04:26 Ben Gilbert From their childhood, through their undergrad research projects, the way that they conceptualize the original PageRank algorithm, everything, truly geniuses.
- ▶ 2:06:29 David Rosenthal We've got this beautiful algorithm in PageRank that can deliver highly relevant organic results.
- ▶ 2:07:36 Ben Gilbert You've got page rank that uses all the clever things we talked about earlier with number of people linking to you and how authoritative those sources are for the organic results to make sure that the most relevant results are being…
- ▶ 2:49:35 David Rosenthal You're consuming content on the internet much more often for a higher share of time than you are running queries and searches, and queries and searches have high intent, so they're really, really valuable, but there's all this other time…
- ▶ 2:55:53 Ben Gilbert What started as just PageRank, plus then using the anchor text, they're starting to use all sorts of things.
- ▶ 2:56:54 Ben Gilbert So, it's worth knowing, and I really didn't know this, PageRank really is the thing that got Google going, but that part of the algorithm isn't really the thing that's the main differentiable asset today.
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 1:09:22 Andrew Marks Someone gave you Google's pay drink algorithm.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 2:24:44 David Rosenthal This whole back rub page rank thing.