two of the biggest, most prolific companies of the internet era, yahoo and google, were both founded as search engines.
they were both founded by academics looking for information on pages
…the quickest way of finding information on pages.
finding information on pages without having to read entire pages by hand.
why couldn’t we read all of this information page by page until we found what we needed?
it would take too long.
how long is too long?
why would it take too long?
we had limited time.
why did we have limited time?
there was too much information.
how much information is too much information?
where was there too much information?
what is information?
who’s idea was it to use computers to catalog this information?
what’s the easiest way to find information in your head?
what’s the easiest way to find information outside of your head?
