The Originator of All Thought
May 19th, 2003
Stephen Downes in Online Learning Daily:
Google doesn’t rank ‘first’ it ranks ‘most’ (the one interesting exception to this being Google news, where ‘first’ counts but ‘accuracy’ doesn’t). And though many articles break first in the mainstream, they are discussed most in the Blogsphere. . . . The Google algorithm should attempt to trace – and credit – the origin of a meme. Otherwise we will be in a situation where, according to Google, Dave Winer is the originator of all thought.
And probably according to Dave Winer, too. ;-)