This is a demo of the Google Search Engine. Note, it is research in progress so expect some downtimes and malfunctions. You can find the older Backrub web page here. Google is being developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin with very talented implementation help by Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg.
Google Operating System Weblog, “Google Is All About Large Amounts of Data“: In a very interesting interview from October, Google’s VP Marissa Mayer confessed that having access to large amounts of data is in many instances more important than creating great algorithms.
Right now Google is really good with keywords, and that’s a limitation we think the search engine should be able to overcome with time. People should be able to ask questions, and we should understand their meaning, or they should be able to talk about things at a conceptual level. We see a lot of concept-based questions — not about what words will appear on the page but more like “what is this about?” A lot of people will turn to things like the semantic Web as a possible answer to that. But what we’re seeing actually is that with a lot of data, you ultimately see things that seem intelligent even though they’re done through brute force.
When you type in “GM” into Google, we know it’s “General Motors.” If you type in “GM foods” we answer with “genetically modified foods.” Because we’re processing so much data, we have a lot of context around things like acronyms. Suddenly, the search engine seems smart like it achieved that semantic understanding, but it hasn’t really. It has to do with brute force. That said, I think the best algorithm for search is a mix of both brute-force computation and sheer comprehensiveness and also the qualitative human component.
Marissa Mayer admitted that the main reason why Google launched the free 411 service is to get a lot of data necessary for training speech recognition algorithms. (more…)
The present invention addresses this and other problems by providing a web site system that includes functionality for searching a repository of information, such as the World Wide Web, by including a search string at the end of a URL without any special formatting. The search string may consist of a single search term, or a plurality of search terms separated by spaces. For example, a user wishing to search for “San Francisco Hotels” may do by simply accessing the URL www.domain_name/San Francisco Hotels, where domain_name is a domain name associated with the web site system. The system may also support the use of Boolean operators and/or other types of operators within the search strings.
In one embodiment, when the system receives a request for a URL of the form www.domain_name/char_string, where char_string is a character string that may include spaces and non-alphabetic characters, the system initially determines whether the character string includes a prefix that identifies the URL as a non-search-request URL. If no such prefix is present, the character string is used in its entirety as a search string to execute a search, and the results of the search are returned to the user. Otherwise, the URL request is processed as a non-search-request URL by, for example, retrieving a static web page or other object from a subdirectory.
SearchEngineLand >> Reports have been coming in that people trying to reach Google, Yahoo and Microsoft from within China or via Chinese ISPs are being redirected to Baidu.
Some have accused Baidu of hijacking the traffic, but we think it’s likely that China is upset with the US over the award it granted to the Dalai Lama and is retaliating by hurting US-based search engines.
Back in 2002, when China was upset with Google, it similarly redirected traffic. From a Reuters article at that time:
Some users in Beijing and Shanghai were redirected to Peking University’s no-frills search site Tianwang, the little known cj888.com and the German-invested Baidu.com, among others. Users in Guangzhou were rerouted to the local portal 21cn.com.
Information Industry and Internet officials had no comment on the move. Sites gaining exposure from it denied any role in the reroutings. “It is definitely not done by us,” said a Baidu official. “We have no idea where it comes from.” (more…)
Looking for one or two MP3s, give SkreemR.com a try. Here’s a small sampling of what can be found @ SkreemR…
Guess what all of these songs have in common???…
Eminem - Mosh
Linkin Park - Hands Held High
Dixie Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice
John Mayer - Waiting to Change the World
Jadakiss - Why (Remix)
Google Book Search now provides the following functionality: “You can now highlight a section of text in any public domain book in Book Search, create a clip from it, and share it with the world. You can post your favorite clips to your blog along with a personal annotation, collect them in a Google Notebook, or share them with friends anywhere you decide to embed the link. Your clip looks exactly as it appears in the book, or if you prefer plain text, we have that too.”
Here’s an example using Charles Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’
With the much-hyped Kanye West/50 Cent battle just days away, here’s why Kanye should win out…
The following MP3s are streamed via this Google search results hack:
The Good Life (next single):
Through the Wire:
Diamonds are Forever:
Jesus Walks:
All Falls Down:
Touch the Sky:
Stronger:
GoldDigger
Slow Jamz:
The New Workout Plan:
Any site administrator that has noticed the following in their logs is well aware that Cuill has already begun indexing the web at a feverish pace.
Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html)
Pronounced ‘Cool’, this Menlo Park (CA) stealth startup is claiming that it can crawl the web at 1/10th the cost of Google! These claims do not seem to be unfounded as the company itself is founded by two former terraGoogle employees and a Stanford PhD. Not much else is known about the company, hence the ’stealth’ mode, but rumors have circulated that Google has already approached them with a buyout offer. Is Google afraid of Cuill’s ability to steal market share or just their ability to steal more Google employees?
For anyone looking to work for this pre-IPO, venture funded startup, they are hiring…