• @HootinNHollerin
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    20 days ago

    Not like it matters here but Baidu was a rip off of google in the first place

    • @jaek
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      318 days ago

      You’ve actually got it backwards. The ranking algorithm (rankdex) developed by one of the engineers that founded Baidu was published in 1996, two years before pagerank. Some of Google’s early patents actually cite the rankdex algo.

      Not like it matters here

      Cope

    • @JaddedFauceet
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      319 days ago

      User generated content would still be valuable