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finin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:40:05 -0400

The quote is close and certainly captures the spirit of what Peter said. I wanted to make sure I got it right for a talk, so I listened to the recorded version and made this transcription ...

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"The other thing that I hadn't really thought about when we started this all is how kind of game theoretic the whole thing is. At first we thought of ourselves as this observer of the Web. That the Web was out there and we made a copy of it and indexed it and if people wanted they could come and access that index. but it was just a reflection of the Web out there. And now we understand that we're co-evolving with the Web and that when we make a move it changes the Web and when the Web changes we change and going back and forth. And so all the search engine optimizers and so on are watching and what we do and we watch what they do and the Web is the interaction between us. And that is something I hadn't even considered before we saw it happening."

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The Game Google Plays

jmvidal — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:29:19 -0400

This is an interesting comment from Peter Norvig over at google.

"We (once) thought of ourselves as observers of the Web. We made a copy of it, and we thought it was just a reflection of the Web," Norvig said Sunday while speaking here at the Singularity Summit, a two-day conference on artificial intelligence. "Now we understand that we're co-evolving. When we make a change, it changes. Search engine optimizers watch us, and when we make a move, then they make a move. The Web moves in different directions because of the interaction between us," he said.

So, there they are, looking for a Nash equilibrium.

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The Game Google Plays