Peter Norvig

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553 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 29 Apr

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So I guess there was a couple of things.

First of all, there was directories and lists of sites.

And so I remember from the various early days, you know, 19...

93 or so.

And there was a site that was Internet site of the day.

Right.

And so it was just you go there and it says, hey, look, here's a new Web site that you might not have heard of before.

And it was like, wow, you know, did you

Today, 10 new websites joined the web and they picked out a good one and you could sort of keep up that way.

But then a year or two later, that no longer worked because there were thousands of new sites every day, not just a couple.

And so Yahoo was one of the first to try to deal with that.

They took this, it's not going to be just one person saying, here's my favorite site today.

It's going to be a company organizing the sites into a directory structure.

That worked okay when the web was a little bit bigger.

But as it continued to grow, that no longer worked.

And then we really needed search rather than manually curated lists of directories and so on.

But in the early days, the search systems just weren't that good.

I guess, you know, we had some experience as a field of doing, it used to be called information retrieval rather than search.

And it was sort of, it worked.

The techniques we had at the time worked for things like libraries.

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