rschroed

not us yahoo / Altavista / or whatever else was around at the time users. Google was so clearly better right out of the gate that I distinctly remember having conversations conveying the shock and awe at the quality of the results. Before Google everything was mediocre at best.

I’d say the for the bulk of Google’s visitors the results aren’t merely good enough, they’re insanely great.

Now, that said, the G monopoly is horrible and needs to die.

Maybe not 'fix inequality nationwide', but it seems reasonable that high salaries in Silicon Valley have driven salaries up in the industry across the country.

Source: tech worker in Seattle.

Isn't the other way around? Mostly algo / automation with a layer or curation? At least that's how I think it used to work, maybe that's changed.

At the very least it seems like the clustering is algorithmic and "most" of the ranking.

Source: Too lazy to look up the 6 year old article that I kinda remember talking about this.

fixed, thanks

In fact for low traffic sites hosting a static site on S3 falls into Amazon's free tier.

I can't program worth a lick in ruby or any other language (I'm somewhat proficient at copy & pasting jquery snippets). I had very little trouble installing it and once it's running, it's great. I basically only use it for simple includes, blog list pages and SASS.

Yes. You are unhireable. At least by the type organization that would make decisions based on a technical interview.

You need to find a place where you can hack for a living. Find someplace where you can make a mess of great ideas and then hand the mess over to trusted co-workers to cleanup. (There are people that like that sort of thing!)

What about a consultancy that builds prototypes, proofs-of-concepts, etc? (Can't think of one off hand but I'm sure they exist)

We've found similar results during user testing recently. http://fellswoop.com/blog/is-user-trust-in-facebook-declinin...