Peter Norvig

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

Peter Norvig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But the problem there was in a library environment,

You know, everything that was published is like a real book or a real journal article that's already been vetted.

And so the quality is all at a pretty high level.

On the web, that just wasn't true.

And so we needed new systems that not only said what's relevant to your query, but also what's the quality of this content.

And other companies really hadn't done that.

And Google said, we're going to take this really seriously, and we're going to work as hard as we can to solve that problem.

And I think others didn't really see that as an opportunity, right?

So there's a story of in the very early days, people were saying,

You know, here's Google, it's rising.

Yahoo was far bigger and far better known.

Maybe Yahoo should buy Google.

And that never happened, in part because the Google founders thought they had something more important.

Whereas Yahoo said, oh yeah, you know, search, that's kind of important.

We've got a homepage and it's got all this stuff on it.

And you've got to have search on the homepage.

But you also need like daily comics and horoscope.

So why would search be more important than horoscope?

You know, that's sort of how they felt about it.

And Google felt, no, we think search is really, really important and we're going to do an excellent job of it.

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