Paul Graham wrote an essay : "Why There Aren't More Googles" --- http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html.<p>In it, he referenced an essay by Umar Haque who wrote on the same issue. The link is in the first line of the essay.<p>I clicked it, but it gave an error message : https://hbr.org/error/page-not-found<p>Anyone knows where I can find a working link to this essay ?
There's an excellent site called 'archive.org', which has the quite honorable and noble goal of "universal access to all knowledge", which includes archiving the web.<p>They have been crawling the web for almost 20 years, and in this case they archived that URL several times in April of 2008. Here's a URL for one of those crawls: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080428142826/http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/04/i_agree_and_i.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20080428142826/http://discussion...</a><p>You really should explore what the Internet Archive offers. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive</a> . The various presentations by Jason Scott, 'rogue archivist' are also entertaining, and give an idea of the spirit behind the Internet Archive, textfiles.com, and similar efforts.