Aravind Srinivas

Exactly. And the fact, I mean, Sergey's magic came like he just reduced it to power iteration, right? And Larry's idea was like the link structure has some valuable signal. So... After that, they hired a lot of great engineers who came and built more ranking signals from traditional information extraction that made PageRank less important.

Exactly. And the fact, I mean, Sergey's magic came like he just reduced it to power iteration, right? And Larry's idea was like the link structure has some valuable signal. So... After that, they hired a lot of great engineers who came and built more ranking signals from traditional information extraction that made PageRank less important.

But the way they got their differentiation from other search engines at the time was through a different ranking signal. And the fact that it was inspired from academic citation graphs, which coincidentally was also the inspiration for us in perplexity. Citations, you know, you're an academic, you've written papers. We all have Google scholars.

But the way they got their differentiation from other search engines at the time was through a different ranking signal. And the fact that it was inspired from academic citation graphs, which coincidentally was also the inspiration for us in perplexity. Citations, you know, you're an academic, you've written papers. We all have Google scholars.

But the way they got their differentiation from other search engines at the time was through a different ranking signal. And the fact that it was inspired from academic citation graphs, which coincidentally was also the inspiration for us in perplexity. Citations, you know, you're an academic, you've written papers. We all have Google scholars.

We all like at least, you know, first few papers we wrote, we'd go and look at Google scholar every single day and see if the citations are increasing. There was some dopamine hit from that, right? So papers that got highly cited was like usually a good thing, good signal. And in Perplexity, that's the same thing too.

We all like at least, you know, first few papers we wrote, we'd go and look at Google scholar every single day and see if the citations are increasing. There was some dopamine hit from that, right? So papers that got highly cited was like usually a good thing, good signal. And in Perplexity, that's the same thing too.

We all like at least, you know, first few papers we wrote, we'd go and look at Google scholar every single day and see if the citations are increasing. There was some dopamine hit from that, right? So papers that got highly cited was like usually a good thing, good signal. And in Perplexity, that's the same thing too.

We said the citation thing is pretty cool and domains that get cited a lot, there's some ranking signal there and that can be used to build a new kind of ranking model for the internet. And that is different from the click-based ranking model that Google is building. So I think that's... why I admire those guys.

We said the citation thing is pretty cool and domains that get cited a lot, there's some ranking signal there and that can be used to build a new kind of ranking model for the internet. And that is different from the click-based ranking model that Google is building. So I think that's... why I admire those guys.

We said the citation thing is pretty cool and domains that get cited a lot, there's some ranking signal there and that can be used to build a new kind of ranking model for the internet. And that is different from the click-based ranking model that Google is building. So I think that's... why I admire those guys.

They had like deep academic grounding, very different from the other founders who are more like undergraduate dropouts trying to do a company. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, they all fit in that sort of mold. Larry and Sergey were the ones who were like Stanford PhDs trying to like have those academic roots and yet trying to build a product that people use.

They had like deep academic grounding, very different from the other founders who are more like undergraduate dropouts trying to do a company. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, they all fit in that sort of mold. Larry and Sergey were the ones who were like Stanford PhDs trying to like have those academic roots and yet trying to build a product that people use.

They had like deep academic grounding, very different from the other founders who are more like undergraduate dropouts trying to do a company. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, they all fit in that sort of mold. Larry and Sergey were the ones who were like Stanford PhDs trying to like have those academic roots and yet trying to build a product that people use.

And Larry Page has inspired me in many other ways too. Like, When the product started getting users, I think instead of focusing on going and building a business team, marketing team, the traditional how internet businesses worked at the time, he had the contrarian insight to say, hey, search is actually going to be important. So I'm going to go and hire as many PhDs as possible.

And Larry Page has inspired me in many other ways too. Like, When the product started getting users, I think instead of focusing on going and building a business team, marketing team, the traditional how internet businesses worked at the time, he had the contrarian insight to say, hey, search is actually going to be important. So I'm going to go and hire as many PhDs as possible.

And Larry Page has inspired me in many other ways too. Like, When the product started getting users, I think instead of focusing on going and building a business team, marketing team, the traditional how internet businesses worked at the time, he had the contrarian insight to say, hey, search is actually going to be important. So I'm going to go and hire as many PhDs as possible.

And there was this arbitrage that internet bust was happening at the time. And so a lot of PhDs who went and worked at other internet companies were available at not a great market rate. So you could spend less, get great talent like Jeff Dean and like, you know, really focused on building core infrastructure and like deeply grounded research and the obsession about latency.

And there was this arbitrage that internet bust was happening at the time. And so a lot of PhDs who went and worked at other internet companies were available at not a great market rate. So you could spend less, get great talent like Jeff Dean and like, you know, really focused on building core infrastructure and like deeply grounded research and the obsession about latency.

And there was this arbitrage that internet bust was happening at the time. And so a lot of PhDs who went and worked at other internet companies were available at not a great market rate. So you could spend less, get great talent like Jeff Dean and like, you know, really focused on building core infrastructure and like deeply grounded research and the obsession about latency.