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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: observation
30 Jun 2025 Acquired Google Part I: Origins of Search
“The only way you could figure that out is if you somehow went and got a copy of everybody’s phone book, then could backtrace all the links.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 30 Jun 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part I: Origins of Search
Transcript context
…It’s easy for me to answer the question who’s in my phone book in my phone today? It’s hard for me to answer the question, whose phone books am I in? Exactly. The only way you could figure that out is if you somehow went and got a copy of everybody’s phone book, then could backtrace all the links. Well, that’s what they do. Google could not have been built at any other time in history because— The web was actually small enough that you could go suck it all up then.…
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