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 Publicado: 05 Oct Jue, 2006 8:55 AM Título del mensaje:
Competition in search
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Competition in search
Businessweek has a good article that covers some of the competition in the search industry. It's interesting to see the angle that each engine takes:
- Ask contends that its topic communities better than PageRank; this is the "would you want to trust a room full of people, or a room full of experts on your topic" angle. Personally, this wouldn't be the angle that I'd press on. For one thing, it's hard to explain. Also, this patent shows that Google has thought about different types of link analysis besides published papers on PageRank:
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"We have more engineers working on core search technology than ever before," says Cutts, adding that most employees spend about 75 percent of their time tweaking Google's main search algorithm to make results faster, more relevant, and more comprehensive for users.
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The part I'd like to clarify is "most employees spend about 75 percent of their time tweaking Google's main search algorithm." I was talking about the breakdown where Google wants to spend 70% of its efforts on core competencies like search and ads, and I probably said it poorly. The way I'd put it is that many engineers spend their time on Google's core quality and those engineers work very hard to improve our search.
It's absolutely the case that we have more engineers working on core search than ever before (and these are talented and smart folks). I think a new product or feature is much easier to point to than "Look, our language identification and segmentation accuracy is X% better, and our recall improved by Y%!", so new products and features tend to get talked about more than core search.
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