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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: prediction
30 Jun 2025 Acquired Google Part I: Origins of Search
“I think (a) they believe search is going to be bigger than anyone could have realized, but (b) they had the insight of the exponential curve of content on the Internet is growing faster than Google will ever be able to index it all or come up with clever strategies to sort it all.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- 30 Jun 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part I: Origins of Search
Transcript context
…It was just the start. I think this is also a major difference in mindset of Larry and Sergey and Google versus the other search providers. Everybody else just said, oh, we’ve got our insight. Okay, great. We’re done. We solved search. Google has never said we solved search. And they just keep investing and investing and investing. I think (a) they believe search is going to be bigger than anyone could have realized, but (b) they had the insight of the exponential curve of content on the Internet is growing faster than Google will ever be able to index it all or come up with clever strategies to sort it all. It’s so dynamically changing that we’ll actually never catch up. So we need to constantly be investing to approximate good results because we’ll actually never have optimal results. Totally.…
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