Quote to Note: Halevy after 10 Years Before the Ads
September 23, 2015
If you track innovations at the Alphabet Google thing, you will know that a number of wizards make the outfit hum. One of the big wizards is Dr. Alon Halevy. He is a database guru, has patents, and now an essayist.
Navigate to “A Decade at Google.” The write up does not reference the ad model which makes research possible. Legal dust ups are sidestepped. The management approach and the reorganization are not part of the write up.
I did note an interesting passage, which I flagged as a quote to note:
It is common wisdom that you should not choose a project that a product team is likely to be embarking on in the short term (e.g., up to a year). By the time you’ll get any results, they will have done it already. They might not do it as well as or as elegantly as you can, but that won’t matter at that point.
I interpreted this to underscore Alphabet Google thing’s “good enough” approach to its technology. If you have time, think about the confluence of Dr. Halevy’s research and Dr. Guha’s. The semantic search engine optimization crowd may have a field day.
Stephen E Arnold, September 23, 2015
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