直接说是因为politics, 写得可以看出来带点情绪, 可能当时确实被politics阴得不 轻。 链接: https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-the-engineers-at-Microsoft-able-to-make-Bing -better-than-Google-even-though-the-employees-at-both-companies-are-equally- smart/answer/Bartosz-Milewski?share=1 正文: I worked at Microsoft in the early 90s as the project lead for the content index, so I know exactly why Microsoft failed in this area. The reason was company politics! Content index was the first step towards the internet search engine. Since the internet was in its infancy, our goal was limited to creating a search engine for the local disk on a PC. In 1995, when I left the company, we had a working Windows Search engine, which became part of Windows XP and which is part of Windows to this day. In fact, we implemented a distributed engine that could index several machines. Of course, scaling this thing to the whole internet would be a non-trivial task; but remember, these were still the early nineties, and we had a head start. If the management weren't so short-sighted, we would have gotten there before Google was even established in the late 90s. So what happened? The content index was part of project Cairo, led by Jim Allchin. It was a grandiose project that would provide a new windows shell, a new file system (OFS), and a content index. The first gross mistake was Allchin's idea of putting the content index in the kernel of the operating system. As a project lead I decided to hedge our bets and create an alternative implementation in user space -- ostensibly for testing, since the OFS was not ready yet. I had to defend this decision at every management meeting, but it worked. The index had quickly became indispensable for the whole XP team, successfully indexing all their sources. (We actually had a feature that would let you find the definition of a function, or a data structure; or all its uses.) The Windows XP team, led by Dave Cutler, was very much against Cairo, because they felt is was encroaching on their territory. There was some kind of competition or war between Allchin and Cutler, which culminated in a deal: Allchin agreed to cancel project Cairo and was rewarded with a promotion to Senior Vice President. Don't ask me how it was possible. In a healthy company Allchin would have been fired. So one day, we were told to abandon the content index and find a new project . That really pissed me off, so I asked for a meeting with Cutler, Allchin, and Mark Zbikowski, who was the mangager of OFS and my immediate superior. I told them that we had a working version of the content index, in user space , that had no dependency on OFS or anything else in Cairo. They let the content index stay, but soon after I was let go. The index is still there, but it's been crippled, its development stunted, and it never had a chance to develop into an internet search engine.
you need to read one of immediate comment of this answer. Based on that answer, what he did is not relevant to why Google is better.
Bing equally-
【在 A********i 的大作中提到】 : 直接说是因为politics, 写得可以看出来带点情绪, 可能当时确实被politics阴得不 : 轻。 : 链接: : https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-the-engineers-at-Microsoft-able-to-make-Bing : -better-than-Google-even-though-the-employees-at-both-companies-are-equally- : smart/answer/Bartosz-Milewski?share=1 : 正文: : I worked at Microsoft in the early 90s as the project lead for the content : index, so I know exactly why Microsoft failed in this area. The reason was : company politics!
a*o
5 楼
不会吧,9个月的吧,12个月才这么点。。。
【在 l*******t 的大作中提到】 : 12个月
A*i
6 楼
well, I read those comments before I started this post, you may notice that there are also several other answers under the same question "Why aren't the engineers at Microsoft able to make Bing better than Google even though the employees at both companies are equally smart?" , those questions also provide some technical reasons like the comments you mentioned. The point in this guy's answer is that Microsoft had a big advantage of developing a search engine in the early stages of the internet, and as mentioned in this guy's answer, Microsoft had already have a working search engine on windows systems, but because of politics, this search engine never got a chance to go further.
【在 ET 的大作中提到】 : you need to read one of immediate comment of this answer. Based on that : answer, what he did is not relevant to why Google is better. : : Bing : equally-
【在 A********i 的大作中提到】 : well, I read those comments before I started this post, you may notice that : there are also several other answers under the same question : "Why aren't the engineers at Microsoft able to make Bing better than Google : even though the employees at both companies are equally smart?" : , those questions also provide some technical reasons like the comments you : mentioned. The point in this guy's answer is that Microsoft had a big : advantage of developing a search engine in the early stages of the internet, : and as mentioned in this guy's answer, Microsoft had already have a working : search engine on windows systems, but because of politics, this search : engine never got a chance to go further.
He thought "Of course, scaling this thing to the whole internet would be a non-trivial task;" 但是在那个时代,微软整体上是在Internet的步伐上落后,甚至有意打压拖延的,即使 简单的Scale的想法也没人愿意去予以实现。这不仅是一个小的政治性的斗争的问题, 最多算是当时微软对于互联网开发缺乏预见性的一个缩影,根子还是在大门那里。
【在 i***h 的大作中提到】 : 一厢情愿的说法 : 他这个目录和狗搜索还差好多啊 : : that : Google : you : internet, : working
【在 l******s 的大作中提到】 : He thought "Of course, scaling this thing to the whole internet would be a : non-trivial task;" : 但是在那个时代,微软整体上是在Internet的步伐上落后,甚至有意打压拖延的,即使 : 简单的Scale的想法也没人愿意去予以实现。这不仅是一个小的政治性的斗争的问题, : 最多算是当时微软对于互联网开发缺乏预见性的一个缩影,根子还是在大门那里。
l*n
13 楼
这和 bing 有神马关系?
ET
14 楼
based on the first immediate comment of this guy's answer, what he had built wouldn't have built a search engine.
that Google you internet, working
【在 A********i 的大作中提到】 : well, I read those comments before I started this post, you may notice that : there are also several other answers under the same question : "Why aren't the engineers at Microsoft able to make Bing better than Google : even though the employees at both companies are equally smart?" : , those questions also provide some technical reasons like the comments you : mentioned. The point in this guy's answer is that Microsoft had a big : advantage of developing a search engine in the early stages of the internet, : and as mentioned in this guy's answer, Microsoft had already have a working : search engine on windows systems, but because of politics, this search : engine never got a chance to go further.
c*e
15 楼
90年代的搜索和google后的搜索完全不同。google是靠的自己建立的index和算法来做 的。90年代的搜索,很多靠搜索html 網頁里的meta tag
Bing equally-
【在 A********i 的大作中提到】 : 直接说是因为politics, 写得可以看出来带点情绪, 可能当时确实被politics阴得不 : 轻。 : 链接: : https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-the-engineers-at-Microsoft-able-to-make-Bing : -better-than-Google-even-though-the-employees-at-both-companies-are-equally- : smart/answer/Bartosz-Milewski?share=1 : 正文: : I worked at Microsoft in the early 90s as the project lead for the content : index, so I know exactly why Microsoft failed in this area. The reason was : company politics!