gjm comments on How much was creating Google worth? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 04 June 2013 04:00:54PM 0 points [-]

When did you switch? (See my reply to David_Gerard for why I'm asking.)

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 04 June 2013 04:55:50PM *  0 points [-]

Hmm. I'm pretty sure it was late 1999.

I think it's more likely that my searches were either really easy or nearly impossible, so the difference in performance didn't stand out.

Comment author: gjm 05 June 2013 09:45:10AM 0 points [-]

Oh well. Another beautiful hypothesis slain by an ugly fact. So it goes.