“Google’s acquisitions chief is looking for crazy ideas [that] ignore the usual restraints of investment levels required or design parameters or ‘Gee I need more servers than anyone ever thought was possible’.. We don’t do traffic for traffic’s sake. It has to be highly monetizable.

“..the problem with linking to good discussions from a content aggregator: you import [the] fuckwads without contributing measurably to the discussion.

“..the point of content is to create interesting discussion. But as a site’s popularity increases, the probability of having an intelligent discussion approaches zero.

“..opportunities for abstraction follow the Zipf distribution.