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>What surprised me was that Larry Page had lots of trouble getting his crawler and indexer to work, partly because he was in Levy's words "not a world-class programmer" but also because of lots of bugs in the brand new and still unstable language he was using, which was called Java.

Reminded me of:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/browse_thread/...

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Hey this is really strange. My user agent was not set (I thought but it was a different issue) and so I googled other solutions besides System.setProperty("http.agent", ""); and so I stumbeled over this entry. Nothing related to your finding :)

Then I posted it on twitter and yesterday on hackernews. That's why I thought that it was my finding. Sorry :)

Hey. Sorry for the comment on the other thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2459123 ), I was thinking "damn, why didn't I submit this separately?", I thought it was a weird coincidence.

I think it was linked on Twitter / Buzz a few months ago (that's where I first heard of it), and that may have improved the post's ranking on Google, which would explain how you stumbled on it 15 years later ;)

Anyway, I'm glad you shared it, since lots more people got to see it.

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