[Search-l] What others are doing.

[Seth Ford]

Personally I think if AI were the only solution Google would get ride of the
thousands of Workforce Logic contractors that do manual query to result
analysis. Maybe that's what they are working towards or maybe they just
realize that human/community is the way to go for the 2-5% that there
current link analysis can't do, or is it they are always making sure the
"head" is sorted properly? Regardless... a big enough community ought to win
out at the end of the day... Doesn't mean one ought to stop focusing on
better algorithmic approaches, one can feed into the other, which they have
shown to be very successful.
Seth


On 8/7/07, peter burden <peter.burden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>     I came across an interesting news story at
> http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201202986
>     The article extolls AI as a way of better understanding user queries
> however the following anonymous comment
>     really caught my eye
>
> > Congratulations! You've totally missed the mark. The problem is not
> > that the manner in which we enter search requests is cryptic nor that
> > the search engines don't do a good job of determining what we want.
> > The real problem is that they do a horrible job of determining what
> > sites have reasonably valid information and eliminating the link farms
> > and traps with no real content.
>
>    Incidentally spotted the following job ads in a related article
>
> >    Redmond, WA: Software Engineer in Live Search Data Mining team at
> Microsoft, Live Search Core Relevance group
> >    Redmond, WA: Software Engineer, Web Search Relevance at Microsoft
> >    Redmond, WA: Software Engineer, Live Search Dynamic Ranking at
> Microsoft
> And finally I wonder, after Google's e-Bay debacle, how well web
> advertising really works. Perhaps there's a
> bit of a draught round the Googleplex.
>
>
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