When I went to India in Dec 05, I got this book called "The Google Story". The name of the book speaks for itz contents. I am just reading this book on and off. Some of the interesting facts are...
Larry Page and Sergey Brin (the founders of Google) developed a technology called "PageRank Technology" to rank the pages on the WWW and wanted patent and sell this technology. They didnot have any idea of becoming entrepreneurs. They tried selling the tech to Lycos, Altavista and finally to Yahoo. Yahoo's CEO politely rejected saying that their focus was not on search and that they had other priorities and added that "If you guyz have such nice idea and tech, y dont u start ur own biz ?"
That sparked the advent of Google.
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Yes da. I read about this guy Ram Sriram. As per the book, hez not a VC. He played a crucial role in getting the VC funding from 2 of the major VC's present in Silicon Valley namely Sequoia capital and Kleiner Perkins. Read more about this in the Google Press releases
Oh ok. I just went to Kosmix site and read about some stuffs. Seems like they are currently into Health / Travel and Politics. Also the "Google Story" book refers to Danny Sullivans Search Engine watch where he was analyzing and publishing reports and reviews on search engines since 97. Lets keep a tab on Kosmix's performance. Also the site answers.com which Sathu had referred earlier looks alike to Kosmix. Google already has a huge customer base and if someone wants to move people out of google, they really have to target hard on something which Google misses on itz search technology. Do you have any ideas on wat u think Google really misses on. Or any pain points on Google / any issues / any problems on Google ?
I noted an issue earlier in Google.
The bug which I found in Google is that when I searched on "Computer
Security news" in Google, the search results page had the following
site which had already shut down.
"CSN is permanently down - thanks for all the good timesCSN is
permanently down - thanks for all the good times. Might we interest you
w/ a nice home firewall? Check out: http://www.pfsense.com/
www.computersecuritynow.com/ "
I strongly believe that Google should have filtered out this match
since the page has already been shutdown. Either the crawler should not
have cached this page or the results page should have specified the new
re-direction page which in this case is "http://www.pfsense.com/".
I would expect Google to be more intelligent.
Yes da.. page rank is popularity of the page. But the reason they chose this popularity for relevance is that when a thesis / paper provides citation to another paper (say x) in that, then the importance of x goes up. The Google Paper provides the right picture of how Google works.
Do you have any reference / white paper on Categorised Content Algo ?If so, post the link / give a brief idea abt it so tat we cud better understand their logic
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