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]]> By: david cushman http://thewayoftheweb.net/2008/10/what-wouldnt-google-do/comment-page-1/#comment-2725 david cushman Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:51:39 +0000 http://thewayoftheweb.net/?p=470#comment-2725 What google does is actually what microsoft did too. Backs several horses - as you say. But it's not quite the all-bases covered model you describe. For a deeper understanding of the evolutionary model they use, take a look at The Origins of Wealth (you'll find it in the recommended books at bottom of any page on my blog). Google has understood that the economy, like the internet and like evolution, is a complex adaptive system. It uses the 'fitness landscape' model to find its 'hits'. And it lets that landscape drive where it focuses resources. There, my 'what would google do?' is a little longer than yours - but not much ;-) What google does is actually what microsoft did too. Backs several horses - as you say.
But it’s not quite the all-bases covered model you describe. For a deeper understanding of the evolutionary model they use, take a look at The Origins of Wealth (you’ll find it in the recommended books at bottom of any page on my blog). Google has understood that the economy, like the internet and like evolution, is a complex adaptive system. It uses the ‘fitness landscape’ model to find its ‘hits’. And it lets that landscape drive where it focuses resources.

There, my ‘what would google do?’ is a little longer than yours - but not much ;-)

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