World Wide Web

3 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2025 by David Rosenthal · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Jun 30, 2025
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Rosenthal: Crawling the entire web from scratch became impossible by 1998
“If you had tried to undertake this as a brand new project, even just a year or a couple years later, it would have been impossible, because the web would have already gotten so big that to just start de novo and create a index copy like this, like a full copy.”
David Rosenthal Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 24:52 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
Jun 30, 2025
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Gilbert: Indexing the full web would cost hundreds of millions by late 1990s
“Even one year later would have been tens of millions of dollars, and within a couple years would have been hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Ben Gilbert Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 25:10 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
Jun 30, 2025
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Google could not have been built at any other time
“Google could not have been built at any other time in history.”
David Rosenthal Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 24:15 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
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