At the end of the 20th century Silicon Valley industry titans like steve jobs and bill gates made a promise that would forever alter how we perceive the world it spans the globe like a superhighway it is called internet and you suddenly are part of a new mash of People Programs archives ideas the personal computer and the internet ushered humanity into the Information Age laying the groundwork for unlimited innovation at the dawn of the 21st century there would be a new revolution a new generation of young geniuses made a new promise beyond our wildest dreams. The idea that we take all the worlds information and make. Everyone limitless information Artificial Intelligence machines that would know what we wanted and would tend to our every need the technology would be beyond our imagine. Nations almost like magic yet the concept would be as simple as a single word search. This was the beginning of google and less than a decade later facebook they would make a new promise to humanity wha
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A single word search. This was the beginning of google and less than a decade later facebook they would make a new promise to humanity what i think so interesting about google and facebook is they were founded at american universities Stanford University you had 2 students larry page and sergey brin decide they wanted to create the ultimate Search Engine for the internet across the country you had in the case of Facebook Mark zuckerberg who was a student at harvard decided he wanted to create a social media platform basically to meet girls and to make friends and hence we got facebook you never think that you could build this company or anything like that right because i got interested in. Building stuff because we thought it was cool it was all about promise it was all about the shiny future it was all about the free flow of information but there was also a certain idealism behind it i think that a company like google. We have the potential to make very big differences and big positiv
Know about and youre going to be telling google more than you would tell a Family Member or your spouse or a very close friend and google has so much information about you that its scary for who were studying 3 very powerful ways in which theyre impacting peoples opinions. And this phenomenon that we discovered a few years ago seem Search Engine if you lation a fact is a list of facts list effect is an effect that a list has on some aspects of our cognitive functioning whats higher in a list is easier to remember for example seem is an example of a list effect but with a difference because its the only list effect im aware of that is supported by a daily regimen of operant conditioning that tells us that whats at the top of search results is better and truer than whats lower in the west its gotten to a point that fewer than 5 percent of people click beyond paige. Because the stuff of it on page one and typically at the top in that sort of above the fold position is the best most of the
Engine page famously said the point of google to get people on to google and off of google out into the open web as quickly as possible and largely theyre really successful about that the success of google led to in many ways the success of the open web in this explosive growth in startups in innovation during that period google had developed this Incredible Technology called page rank unveiling what was known in the back row about them and it was your sleeps and bounds ahead of Services Like yahoo altavista and quickly became the clear winner in the space just from a Technology Basis and what page does is it spiders around the internet instead of being a Directory Service like yahoo was its taking pictures of web pages and analyzing the links between the web pages and using them to make some assumptions about relevance and so if youre looking for some history of Abraham Lincoln and theres a bunch of links to cross the web pointing to a particular site that must mean that this page is.