03 Jul 2006
A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor

As the article points out "In many ways, it still has the head of an graduate-school project grafted onto the body of an multinational corporation." This will be their salvation in a world dominated by traditional corporate behemoths. The only way to beat these huge monoliths is to be lithe and quick, to think fast and act faster. So far, for Google, so good ...

When Google was a graduate-school project being run from a Silicon Valley garage, its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built their own computers out of cheap parts meant for personal computers. They wanted to save money, and they felt that they could design a network of computers that would search the Web more efficiently than those available from traditional manufacturers.

(link) [NYT > Home Page]

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