Hindsight is 20/20
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Philip Jacob
Note to archeologists and readers: this was written a long time ago and is maintained simply for historical reasons.
The seeds for del.icio.us were planted here, way back in 1998.
Another wonderful quote from the same document written all those years ago:
Recently a new web indexing service was developed at Stanford University by the name of Google which is based on the debatably innovative idea of determining a document’s significance based on the significance of documents that link to it. *
I’d like to think that the debate referenced in the quote above is over, but I don’t believe that it is. Google seems more and more like a sparkly, shiny short-term hack to a very big problem.