Comment Re: What tripe (Score 1) 133
Alta vista didnâ(TM)t âoelesâ to google, and monetizing search they way it was done led to the entire internet being built around fooling people that search, or organizing the worlds content as a giant QA scam. The fact every little thing you search becomes part of secret dossiers accessed by advertisers or those that can profit in questionable ways is also another bonus. Google has done enormous contributions in many fronts, and while Microsoft has always been extremely profitable at monetizing other people ideas, Google has developed very powerful technologies and practices that are core to todayâ(TM)s most wild advances, including coming up with Transformers (not the movie) and powerful RL architectures.