17 Nov
2012
17 Nov
'12
3:21 p.m.
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
Yes, you are quite right, but you need the endlessly
scalable and
fault-tolerant architecture as well. So you could say two paradigm
shifts were involved. No wonder Google won. :)
Google has branched out into a lot of other Information fields.
I remember when they were frantically building a "war chest" in
expectation of MAJOR confrontations with Microsoft.
Once you got used to the idea of the page you want
being #1 most of the
time (as is still the case IME), then one quickly forgot about the other
engines...
During their early days, Google did a surprisingly large amount of their
relevance ranking MANUALLY! Then they apparently expanded into letting
more of their ranking be alfgorithmically done with Saltonin vector Space
and cosine measures. I wonder what they are doing now. Have they
published any of their algorithms in any of the Information Science
journals?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com