Google’s rickety search engine, the challengers and Microsoft stealth project
Google has provided a NYT reporter rare access to some secrets of Google’s search engine. Unfortunately, it’s like in the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothee’s dog Tito pulls away the curtain exposing something that is much less impressive than you’d hoped.
We’re so used to hearing about Google’s perfect algorithm, which has a 500 million variables (according to Google’s site).
But the New York Times’s Saul Hansell writes up a good description of what appears to… Continue Reading