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by gonehome 4826 days ago
This reminds me of a conversation Larry and Sergey had when they had first come up with page rank and were trying to sell it to existing search engines.

The companies complained that their algorithm was too good and that users would leave the search portal too quickly without seeing any advertising.

It was obvious to Page and Brin that this was stupid - pushing them to start Google.