On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/3/31 Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 31/03/2009, doc
<doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
> The Library of Alexandria was with us for
between 350 and a thousand
> years (depending on which history book you read), Wikipedia has been
> with us for a total of 8.
Yes, and it's been ranked about 8 on the
entire freaking internet for
a lot of that time! Things that happen relatively early on in the
course of something (like the internet) tend to get 'frozen in' and
have much longer life than you would expect they could have, google
for example is not going away any time soon.
Note that Google came from nowhere, by word of mouth, to become top
search engine because of being much better than the other
heavily-promoted search engines. Much like Wikipedia's rise to fame.
None of the tools were that well promoted, really - Altavista had been a
research experiment that Digital tried to capitalize on, and Yahoo was too
stuck on directories / organizing and too little on content. PR as we know
it was still very primitive on the net.
But Google did rise by being better.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com