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Google's Pageranking Explained

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-into-depth dept.

bluegreenone writes "Google has a new page up about some of their proprietary search technology. Looks like Teoma's bid to outdo Google may be harder than they initially thought." It's an interesting technique, and definitely a lot harder for competitors to duplicate than I would have originally thought.

127 comments

  1. Gives new meaning to ... by WilliamsDA · · Score: 5, Funny

    hunt and peck

    1. Re:Gives new meaning to ... by jmccay · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      {Off topic}
      Where did the Anonymous Coward functionality go? Do you have to subscribe to become an Anonymous Coward? The check box is gone, or is this another April FOol's joke to see who uses it?
      {end Off Topic}

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    2. Re:Gives new meaning to ... by garcia · · Score: 0, Redundant

      gives new meaning to PhD.

    3. Re:Gives new meaning to ... by Jburkholder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's gone! Can't hide behind AC today, should cut down on time wasted on posting today!

    4. Re:Gives new meaning to ... by ahutch7119 · · Score: 1

      I wonder if the ever have problems with Pigeons dumping their linflax kernels...

    5. Re:Gives new meaning to ... by MrFredBloggs · · Score: 0, Troll

      Good, isnt it. Never understood why ACs exist. I read once it was because people need to hide their identity. That doesnt make sense, given that 99% of users here dont use their real names anyway!

  2. haha! by flynt · · Score: 1

    april fool! it so funny! pigeons typing...too funny fo me! (btw, is it a slashdot april fools to disable anonymous posting, or is that how its gonna be?)

    1. Re:haha! by caspper69 · · Score: 1

      april fool! it so funny! pigeons typing...too funny fo me! (btw, is it a slashdot april fools to disable anonymous posting, or is that how its gonna be?)

      This is one of those days where anonymous posting would do much more harm than good. In fact, I'm not surprised at all. Although it's probably just for "April Fools" stories, not regular news bytes.

  3. Damn that was fast... by Drakin · · Score: 1

    *looks to the artical about Indian pigeons* They already hired them it looks like...

    1. Re:Damn that was fast... by cyclist1200 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Good...I was worried all those unemployed pigeons would drag the economy back down!

  4. Pigeons by Stone+Rhino · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if they also use the pigeons to carry data on their internal network?

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    1. Re:Pigeons by WinterSolstice · · Score: 3, Funny
      Yes, they do.

      The new Pigeon Packets (RFC 999421-B) use a new form of CRC to help ensure accurate package delivery. Unlike Ethernet and Token-Ring however, these packages are left in the area after mistaken delivery, and must be periodically cleaned.

      The biggest problem stems from packet storms...

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    2. Re:Pigeons by daviddennis · · Score: 2
      This has all been covered in detail in RFC 1149.

      Also see the World's First RFC 1149 implementation

      D

  5. Odd... by xZAQx · · Score: 1, Troll

    And I thought Microsoft was the only company that consisted solely of pigeon-brained species =/

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    1. Re:Odd... by cheetham · · Score: 1

      Remember it does take some brains to be evil imo. ;)

  6. pigeons? by fabiolrs · · Score: 1

    Are those pigeons the one fired from Indias Avian Carriers? :))

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    1. Re:pigeons? by RedWolves2 · · Score: 1

      No!

      Where does Google get its pigeons? Some special breeding lab?

      Google uses only low-cost, off-the-street pigeons for its clusters. Gathered from city parks and plazas by Google's pack of more than 50 Phds (Pigeon-harvesting dogs), the pigeons are given a quick orientation on web site relevance and assigned to an appropriate data coop.

    2. Re:pigeons? by fabiolrs · · Score: 1

      DAMN IT!!

      Man, now I know why slashdot has been so strange last few days! Those little motherfuckers started a riot and took control of the whole internet!

      damn, and we though they were stupid little birds... in fact it was just a disguise, these guys are far more inteligent than we though, they already took control of most modern buildings in the world, now they are controling what we read and search on the net...

      God help us all! :))

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    3. Re:pigeons? by R2.0 · · Score: 1

      "Google uses only low-cost, off-the-street pigeons for its clusters. Gathered from city parks and plazas by Google's pack of more than 50 Phds (Pigeon-harvesting dogs), the pigeons are given a quick orientation on web site relevance and assigned to an appropriate data coop."

      Why don't they use the same folks that get the pigeon for the Hegins Pigeon Shoot each year?

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  7. Teoma's Technology by citroidSD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, I just came back from Teoma, talked to an engineer there, and he told me that using Pigeon Clusters is so outdated. He showed me Teoma's technology. It was a room full of monkeys sitting in front of PC's (running Linux of course). Sure it was a smelly room, but those primates were busy pounding away on the keyboard...

    Primate Clusters are the way to go baby.

    1. Re:Teoma's Technology by NMerriam · · Score: 3, Funny

      The problem with using primates is that they are so busy writing the complete works of Shakespeare, they rarely have time to work on the web search rankings...

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    2. Re:Teoma's Technology by ksflock · · Score: 1

      Gues the use some of those mokeys to produse some of the content here on ./ aswell.

      Sig: Min ape kan ikke stave.:o)

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    3. Re:Teoma's Technology by damiam · · Score: 1

      Only a room of monkeys? How lame. Google's researching search technology based on infinite monkeys.

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  8. Kinda expected... by MrPerfekt · · Score: 1

    Not suprisingly, Slashdot on April 1 is as useless as condoms for 16 year old C++ programmers.

    Anything useful to read about today?

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  9. Pigeons? they are just trying to confuse you by Emugamer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow they have you all going. This is an April Fool's day joke if I ever saw it. I've been to Google's secret underground lair and as anyone who has survived their Mission Impossible style defenses can tell you.... its Squirrels, this is just a lame attempt to throw off their competitors.

    hmmm what happened to the post as Anonymous Coward box? oh well, Google Doesn't know where I live, do they? ......

    1. Re:Pigeons? they are just trying to confuse you by fabiolrs · · Score: 1

      mmm what happened to the post as Anonymous Coward box? oh well, Google Doesn't know where I live, do they?

      THEY DONT!!! Altough if they were called MICRO$OFT they would know where you live, the size of your shoes, the chocolate you like best............. :)))

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    2. Re:Pigeons? they are just trying to confuse you by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 2

      Wow. For a minute, I thought this was serious.
      Ha ha ha ha I can't help but laugh.

    3. Re:Pigeons? they are just trying to confuse you by Emugamer · · Score: 2

      Moderation Totals: Redundant=1, Funny=4, Overrated=2, Total=7.

      Yikes... seems that my humor is only found funny by a few :)

  10. that's one smart pigeon by f00zbll · · Score: 1

    Man, the birds are so smart. No wonder they can dive bomb so accurately, reguarless of bad disguises.

  11. wow by aozilla · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, that's really stupid and not funny. Stick to search engines, guys.

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  12. New home for India's unwanted pigeons by Reziac · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, you read it here first, those retired carrier pigeons from India are being shipped to Google as we speak. Of course Google will have to take steps to ensure that no pigeons escape back to India carrying precious webpage rankings -- imagine the disaster if every web page in the world suddenly pointed at India!! Why, there'd barely be enough to go round!

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  13. Pigeon poodoo by glh · · Score: 1

    Just imagine the amount of pigeon poodoo they must be having to deal with! Wonder what they're doing with all of it?

    1. Re:Pigeon poodoo by RedWolves2 · · Score: 1

      From the "article" ;-)

      Removal of other pigeon byproducts was a greater challenge, until Page and Brin developed groundbreaking technology for converting poop to pixels, the tiny dots that make up a monitor's display. The clean white background of Google's home page is powered by this renewable process.

    2. Re:Pigeon poodoo by ladykadyj · · Score: 1

      Ha! They are serving it up to you, the user!!! Enjoy that pigeon 'poodoo' ;-)

  14. And this is why.. by baptiste · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I like Google so much. Yes, their search engine rocks - nobody can compare.

    But in the end they still haven't forgotten their roots and can still have fun - it reminds me when other Internet companies didn't take themsleves so serious all the time.

    Don't look out your window! There's Temoa engineers scraping up pigeon droppings off the street to do a little reverse engineering!

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    1. Re:And this is why.. by Saeger · · Score: 2
      Reminds me of a line that a boss of mine used to say, which went like: "Professionals are supposed to wear frowns." As if being human and having a lightheart is unproductive somewhow. We need more people on the cluetrain.

      This is somewhat offtopic, but you ever notice how some people's brows are permanently furrowed--especially news anchors? They've etched the "looking busy" or "I'm a serious mofo" expression onto their face and probably consider it an asset... but all I can think is, "lighten up man!"

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  15. impressive by bareminimum · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the term Pigeon Prank (tm) patented process would be more appropriate.

  16. Pigeon Jokes got old long ago by wikki · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When are people going to give up on the pigeon jokes. These things are getting worse than the All Your Base rip-offs.

    1. Re:Pigeon Jokes got old long ago by Nighttime · · Score: 2, Funny

      All your pigeon are belong to us

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  17. Posted by an Anonymous Coward. by bihoy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, I've heard it thru the grapevine that the RIAA plans to target Google next. Teoma is hoping to do an endrun around them with a wholly different set of technology. It only stand to reason that Google is trying to put a good front on the whole issue in hope that they can instantiaite a new buisnes model that involves a micropayment system arrangment with paypal.

    Personally I think this is getting way outta control.

    1. Re:Posted by an Anonymous Coward. by Cowculator · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, the DMCA might be kinda useless here - Google caches sites on the bottom of the pigeons' cages, so the copyrighted works certainly aren't in their original form anymore.

  18. Better not let PETA by TheViffer · · Score: 1

    find out about this!

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  19. Patents Pending by $beirdo · · Score: 1

    Google has applied for several patents, including a patent for the entire pigeon genome...

  20. Re:Why does Slashdot Lie to us? by wikki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF does this have to do with anything? Get back to lala land.

    SCORE 1 for FLAME BAIT!!

  21. so whats the average wind speed of a ....... by Kasmiur · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    European pigeon?

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  22. Every time you GoogleWhack... by Warped-Reality · · Score: 2, Funny

    A pigeon gets it's wings

    :)

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  23. From what I can tell... by Electrawn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lin/ax produces Poop!

    1. Re:From what I can tell... by Electrawn · · Score: 1

      Also, from what I can tell, Moderators need to read the article before moderating...

      So once again, with a slight tweak to get past the zealot filter:

      lin/ax produces Poop, .Net produces SH-IT (So Huge - It's Torture!)

      Grr.

  24. Peregrine Falcons... by southpolesammy · · Score: 1

    If there were ever a better time for the Peregrine Falcon Recovery Plan to take off and kill these stupid pigeon-based April Fool's Day jokes....

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  25. poop to pixels by anti-drew · · Score: 0, Troll
    Page and Brin developed groundbreaking technology for converting poop to pixels, the tiny dots that make up a monitor's display. The clean white background of Google's home page is powered by this renewable process.

    Slashdot, ever devoted to the environment, has recently licensed this technology. They have an ongoing agreement to purchase all the remaining non-white poop pixels for reuse in enormous HP ads.
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    1. Re:poop to pixels by anti-drew · · Score: 1

      Whoops, I spoke too soon!! Clearly, the massive influx of poop pixels from Google must now be going to make Slashvertisements. My apologies to Carly Fiorina. :-)

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  26. World Famous Chef by shallow+monkey · · Score: 1

    I really wanted to see a pic of Google's world famous chef preparing the pigeons' meals!

    1. Re:World Famous Chef by Soko · · Score: 2

      How about Colonel Saunders? ^_^

      Whooops, you meant preparing meals for the pidgeons didn't you, not preparing the pidgeons as meals? My bad. :-P

      Soko

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  27. Evolution of Search Engines by mikosullivan · · Score: 2
    First, CUI was My Search Engine of Choice. Then WebCrawler was My Search Engine of Choice. Then AltaVista came along and became My Search Engine of Choice. Now Google is My Search Engine of Choice. Why shouldn't something else come along?

    I love Google, and I do have a hard time imagining someone else doing a better job, but I'll drop them like a bad habit if something better comes along.

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  28. Google Rocks! by hillct · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only have they survived while other .com era companies have faltered, they have ratained the good humor and playfullness that was a hallmark of that era.

    Go GOOGLE!

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  29. pigeons monkeys by Gary+Yngve · · Score: 2

    All these reports indicate one thing: while it may take millions of monkeys hammering away at keyboards to get what you want, use only a few thousand pigeons and get it faster and better.

  30. Re:Why does Slashdot Lie to us? by wikki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this was right on topic with the comment it was in reply to. You stupid fucks need to learn how to read.

  31. Anti-Pigeon measures by nobodaddy · · Score: 1

    Okay, it's in french, but it's those nifty strips of vertical 2" pins that you see all over any horizontal area on important buildings in europe.
    http://www.facaclean.be/html/pigeon.htm
    Oh, I liked the part about the restroom with a selection of the finest european statuary...

  32. Ah-hah! by PinkStainlessTail · · Score: 4, Funny
    parrots posing seductively in resplendent plumage

    No wonder the first 100 hits for "monitors" are from the Viewsonic site...

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  33. More Importantly by the_Bionic_lemming · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are they able to carry coconuts?

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      "Are you saying coconuts migrate?"

      "A swallow could grip it by the husk!"

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    2. Re:More Importantly by southpolesammy · · Score: 1

      Ah yes, but pigeons are non-migratory...

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    3. Re:More Importantly by parseError · · Score: 1

      gripping by the husk, I'm sure African Pigeons could maintain proper air velocity. it may take two, though, suspending the coconut, of course.

      speaking of coconuts and primates, perhaps this relates to Temoa's bid, the Monkeys Slamming Fingers Together, MSFT, search and assymilation protocol.

      or maybe that acronym is already used by some different monkeys?

      -m

    4. Re:More Importantly by Geek+In+Training · · Score: 2

      Are they able to carry coconuts?

      Only two birds at a time, with a good tailwind.

      (Wakka wakka wakka! Don't you just love April Fool's Day? Or Poisson d'Avril, if you prefer. Something about the frenchies sticking fish on peoples' backs just sounds unsettling, though. But all of this is definitely much better than trying to figure out the terrorism in Israel. As Dave Barry said, in fifty million years, when all the humans have died out, there will be cockroaches in the middle east who still hate a different group of cockroaches in the middle east; they're just never going to have peace.)

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  34. off topic - April Fool's Day @ TheOnion by jvj24601 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know, with all of the news sites carrying bogus stories in the spirit of April Fool's Day, I was wondering what the ONION would do about this. Turns out that they didn't change a thing.
    actual news stories up there. It would have been great to read real news about the latest bombings in the Middle East, or GW's plans to fight terrorism, right on the front page and see if anyone would believe (or not believe, as the case may be) those stories.

    Missed opportunities abound...

  35. Imagine... by darkov · · Score: 2, Funny

    a beowolf cluser of these! And then imagine the smell.

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  36. Makes you wonder by mocm · · Score: 5, Funny

    what's behind the carnivore program.

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    1. Re:Makes you wonder by hex1848 · · Score: 2

      what's behind the carnivore program.

      rats.. big, hairy, carnivorous rats with scraggly teeth.

  37. Slashcrap by NickisGod.com · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jokes for retards, shit that's fake.

    Har, Har, Apr1l F0015! Sorry, but come on!

  38. Imagine what the Teoma developers are thinking... by shinnyo · · Score: 1

    "Egads, Jeff, look at this!" "Tom, wake up all our developers. We're going pigeon catching."

  39. All Your Pigeon Are Belong To Us! by Band0r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All Your Pigeon Are Belong To Us!

  40. Huh? by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 1


    What is a Pageran King ???

  41. In related new... by Kircle · · Score: 1

    In related new, Teoma plans to overtake Google as the #1 search engine on the Internet, in which a Google representative simply responded, "When pigs fly!"

    Inside sources close to the situation say Teoma is currently in talks to purchase Farmer Hank's magic pig farm, complete with magic beans.

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  42. Birds of a Better Feather by mbone · · Score: 1

    Any bird person would know that African Grey's are much superior to pigeons in ther web ranking abilities.

    1. Re:Birds of a Better Feather by mbone · · Score: 1

      And if TEOMA really wants to get ahead of Google, they would use the Intrapet Explorer" as their browser of choice.

  43. Ummm...Not funny? by SwellJoe · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I've so far been disappointed by all of the April Fools stuff I've seen except the MaraDNS version 0.9.90 announcement this morning. Very satisfying and very subtle, that one. This other stuff? Bleh!

    Pigeons searching the web? Where's the subtlety in that? Where's the surprise? The Slashdot bit was mildly entertaining, Freshmeat was just a groaner. There has to be surprise to really get a good laugh going, and I just wasn't surprised by these things. Maybe I'm jaded from reading them for too long and knowing what to expect from them.

    Oh, well, I'll quit griping now. Maybe I'll go read the MaraDNS release announcement again. That'll put me in a better mood, I reckon.

    1. Re:Ummm...Not funny? by silverbax · · Score: 1

      April Fool's is lame idea to begin with, so it's unliekly anyone could come up with anything funny about it.

    2. Re:Ummm...Not funny? by drimmeeper · · Score: 1

      And in other news, Microsoft announces it will no longer be developing its Windows operating system. A Microsoft spokesperson said, "We believe we can do much better training circus fleas to do the tasks normally assosciated with operating systems". Certainly this flea based system will boost the veterinary industry due to an influx of people taking their computers in for flea baths. More at 11.

  44. what happens when google doesn't work? by zendeath · · Score: 1

    PigeonPoop.

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  45. Interesting... by grnbrg · · Score: 5, Funny

    It might take an infinite number of monkeys to produce the internet, but apparently it only takes a finite number of pigeons to rank it...

    :)

    grnbrg

    1. Re:Interesting... by markmoss · · Score: 2

      It might take an infinite number of monkeys to produce the internet, but apparently it only takes a finite number of pigeons to rank it...
      Or to fly over and make it rank.

    2. Re:Interesting... by StandardDeviant · · Score: 2

      It's always easier to be a critic than a creator. ;-)

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  46. This just proves Teoma is doomed. . . by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The point of using pigeons instead of monkeys is that pigeons are commodity birdware that can be found in any public park or on any statue. Using monkeys means all sorts of hassles. Simians not being native to the US, reliance on monkeys puts us at the mercy of tin pot dictators from monkeyed countries.

    Further, pigeons have consistently been shown to outperform humans in search engine environments, and though no direct pigeon/monkey benchmarks have been performed, monkeys suffer from many of the same limitations which bottleneck human performance. They're more expensive to maintain, they crash frequently during mating season, and pigeons are completely immune to the feces-hurling problems found in all monkey clusters (and a few human ones).

    Finally, TCO for a twelve-bird cluster is actually *less* than that for a single monkey. Teoma isn't going to be able to scale their system without a massive influx of cash and bananas.

    Man, doesn't *anybody* read the articles?

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    1. Re:This just proves Teoma is doomed. . . by scumdamn · · Score: 3

      This whole post deserves a +5 for the term "monkeyed countries" alone.
      If more slashdot comments contained the term monkeyed countries the world (or at least the slashdot corner of it) would be a better place.

    2. Re:This just proves Teoma is doomed. . . by Kryptic+Knight · · Score: 1
      Ah .. this method won't work on .co.UK pages then.

      "pigeons instead of monkeys is that pigeons are commodity birdware that can be found in any public park"

      There was a legal case a while back about someone catching pidgeons in Trafalgar Square (London) to use in Pigeon Pie. (sorry can't find the reference).

      Turns out this is not legal

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  47. good lord by BurpingWeezer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good Lord. I forgot today was April 1. I actually started reading the article thinking it was a normal one. I'm thinking "Oh my god, they actually do this?"

    Its only 9 am and time for a beer already!

  48. Re:Gives new meaning to ... caching by jaxdahl · · Score: 1

    even google didn't cache its own recent page.. heres the page you get if you try to get a cached version.

  49. Re:Why does Slashdot Lie to us? by technopinion · · Score: 1

    What?

  50. madness by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 3, Funny

    First they allow patenting math (all software comes from code and all code can be expressed as math) and now they'll patent the use of live animals?! When will this cruelty end!!!

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  51. anon posting really disabled by brlewis · · Score: 1

    Would have been more funny if they had made it so only for this article.

    1. Re:anon posting really disabled by brlewis · · Score: 1

      Posted on the wrong article. I was checking to see if anon posting was disabled for other articles and got confused.

    2. Re:anon posting really disabled by J'raxis · · Score: 1

      Disabling anonymous posting for a site is a Slash setting; all they needed to do was flip one toggle to do so. Disabling it for that one story would have required them to write new code just for that, which we already know is a 4/1 joke to begin with.

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  52. (OT) Re:haha! by Tasty+Beef+Jerky · · Score: 0
    btw, is it a slashdot april fools to disable anonymous posting, or is that how its gonna be?

    Actually, it's probably the way things are going to be. One of the User Created Discussions has been message bombed into oblivion (6000+ messages) by someone posting anonymously through open proxies.

    There are two ways to fix that, block all open proxies (Which is practically impossible) or block anonymous posting. If you have to be logged in to post, they can limit your posting no matter what IP you come in from.

    My guess is that AC posting is gone forever.

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    1. Re:(OT) Re:haha! by Zagadka · · Score: 1

      That doesn't explain why the "post as AC" option is gone for logged-in users.

  53. I thought it was... by damiam · · Score: 1

    Every time you GoogleWhack, God kills a pigeon.

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  54. Google on April Fools Day by bsdparasite · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google has always come up with some very interesting articles on April 1st. This is one is by far the most interesting.

    GO GO GOOOOGLE!!

  55. Slashdot should follow Google. by psycht · · Score: 1

    rename the site to SlashDove.

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    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  57. BoW, BAAH! We got better than that by Em+Emalb · · Score: 2

    Beak over Wing?

    this is a great new technology. My employer has currently started development on a next generation of this amaxing tech: BoW+1C. Beak over Wing + 1 claw is amazingingly fast. Our benchmarks show your page rankings can be done using half the pigeons, with maximum results. In fact, one of our early adopters (Bobs House of Kink and Bubble Gum) has trippled his page hits in 3 hours using this technology. For more information, please browse our website: http://www.pow+1c.com You won't regret it!!!!

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  58. Analysis of PageRank attack resistance by raph · · Score: 2

    Heh, the PigeonRank page is definitely the best April Fools joke so far.

    As part of my PhD research, I've been doing some analysis of the PageRank algorithm. A few weeks ago, I did some analysis of the attack-resistance properties, and found that it is one of two known instances of an attack resistant trust metric (the other being Advogato. To me, this is pretty exciting, as it would seem to support my belief that trust metrics have much wider use than the PKI-like applications that originally motivated my research.

    The analysis of PageRank is in Chapter 6 of my thesis-in-progress. Also in the chapter is a discussion of how to apply the trust metric to more general metadata, as well as a distributed network model of the trust metric.

    Serious hackers will also be interested in my spiffy research implementation of PageRank.

    I'm very much interested in connecting with others who understand and appreciate these results. Lord knows why I'm posting to Slashdot... oh well, time to go back to feeding my pigeons.

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  59. Doesn't anyone realize that it is April Fools Day? by monkey99 · · Score: 1

    Please tell me I am not the first to post this. I expect a little more from the jaded audience of /.

  60. Now I can take out the internet! by Internet+Stranger · · Score: 1

    Screw ServerA out in Virginia, im going pigeon hunting!

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  61. news.google.com by mbonnett · · Score: 1

    Another reason to love Google: http://news.google.com

    -Mike

  62. who knew? by bilbobuggins · · Score: 1

    apparently pigeons are all scientologists.

  63. Oooooh... amazing... yeah, right. by Hyped01 · · Score: 1
    Do a search for restaurant guide on teoma and see what comes up... looks like they are suggesting that you use other's search engines to find restaurant guides... how neat! At least their search engine is set up to send you elsewhere (to their competition) when it doesnt have a clue.

    The results were:

    1. Webcrawler
    WebCrawler.com Web News Photos Yellow Pages White Pages Search Zoom In Escape! airfare discount travel hotels Autos...
    http://www.webcrawler.com/
    [More results like this]

    2. Yahoo!
    Yahoo Yahoo! Personals find the one for you Click Here ! Yahoo! Messenger 5.0 download now! advanced search Y! Shopping - Computers ? Video Games...
    http://www.yahoo.com/

    3. HotBot
    HotBot Search Smarter Look for: all the words any of the words exact phrase the page title the person links to this URL boolean phrase Date:...
    http://www.hotbot.com/
    [More results like this]

    4. http://www.excite.com/
    http://www.excite.com/...
    http://www.excite.com/

    5. Google
    Happy Holidays from Google Web Images Groups Directory ? Advanced Search ? Preferences ? Language Tools Advertise with Us - Add...
    http://www.google.com/

    6. Lycos
    Lycos Home Site Map My Lycos TOOLS Chat Clubs Downloads Email/IM Horoscopes Maps MP3s Multimedia Personals Photos Stocks Translate WAP/SMS...
    http://www.lycos.com/

    7. AltaVista - The Search Company
    AltaVista provides the most comprehensive search experience on the Web! ... AltaVista Try your search in: Images ? Video ? MP3/Audio ? News...
    http://www.altavista.com/

    8. AllTheWeb.com
    AllTheWeb Search All The Web, All the Time : ... Help | Customize | Advanced Search Any language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Basque Byelorussian...
    http://www.alltheweb.com/

    9. Dogpile. All results, no mess.
    Dogpile gives you more result with less effort. Find the best results on the Web with the help of more than 15 of the top search engines in the...
    http://www.dogpile.com/
    [More results like this]

    10. Direct Hit. One Search Engine. Millions of Minds.
    direct hit direct hit November 26, 2001 Search for... web sites categories ...or ask a question Tragedy in the US: News and Resources...
    http://www.directhit.com/
    [More results like this] Neat, huh?

    Besides often irrelevant results, or results such as above, it's slower, and still has bugs that need to be worked out (clicking certain NEXT navigation will put you at results 1-10 of who knows what or where - like click the >> at the end of the 1 2 3 ... section - leaving no other page options other than NEXT >> after that...).

    I see it getting slower and slower if it gets adopted by any decent amount of people, and then eventually either in need of a server farm of immense proportions or lots of IIS's famous "Server too busy" errors...

    Robert FoodPlaces.com - The Largest Restaurant Guide in the Nation!

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  64. They patented it! by Micah · · Score: 2

    The b@st@rds! I hereby call for a boycott of Google until they guarantee that all Free Software projects can use this royalty free!

  65. Google's Secret by Hadley123456 · · Score: 1

    I alwasy though it was some kind of AI thing.

  66. Ranking by skipscum · · Score: 1

    "When a relevant result is observed by one of the pigeons in the cluster, it strikes a rubber- coated steel bar with its beak, which assigns the page a PigeonRank value of one. For each peck, the PigeonRank increases."

    Sounds just like moding on Slashdot. Hmmm....

  67. April Fool's stories by b2beast · · Score: 1

    I liked the story on Wired about the water-logged digital camera.

    http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51205,0 0. html

    Adbumb had a special bulletin about DoubleClick merging with all of its competitors. Any other good stories out there?

  68. I sent this in hours ago by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 2

    I've said it once, and I'll say it again: I sent this story in hours ago and it was rejected! Bah.

  69. Take a look at the graphs. by WickedChicken · · Score: 1

    "Lin/ax Kernels Consumed"

    "This open space lin/ax powers Google's operations to this day, and a visit to the data coop reveals pigeons happily pecking away at lin/ax kernels and seeds."

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    "It's even worse if you're locked into a proprietary operating system." -http://www.wehavethewayout.com/scale.asp?rew=0
  70. In other news by guttentag · · Score: 2

    Teoma sends its Beowulf cluster to devour Google's Pigeon cluster. Teoma still sucks, but it reigns supreme over Google's feather-littered server room.

  71. RMS is not happy by jfunk · · Score: 1

    I mean, come on, people. Everybody knows (or should know) that there would be no pigeons if there were no Gnus. They're symbiotic.

    To ensure the proper respect the Gnus deserve, Google should have at least changed Lin/ax to Gnu/Lin/ax in the article.

    Sheesh.

  72. Try searching for... by jonasj · · Score: 2, Funny

    PigeonRank is real - GoogleWhack!

    (Oh, and notice how the spellchecker suggests that you probably meant "PageRank"... ;-))

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    You know, Microsoft's street address also says a lot about their mentality.
  73. Google cache by evilmrhenry · · Score: 1
    (joke)

    Here's the Google cache of the page. Really, Slashdot needs to stop posting to these small pages.

    Link

  74. Slashdotted. by Talinom · · Score: 1

    The page is slashdotted. Does anyone know what the google mirror is?

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    "Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
  75. This puts a new meaning by Liquor · · Score: 2

    This puts a whole new meaning on 'pigeonholing' a document.

    But the real problem that this technology has created, is that until now, nobody realized that pigeons were really penguins in disguise... :)

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    Liquor
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  76. an indian !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    yes, we mother fuckers are fucking everyone around today with our sheer intelligence!!... and u assholes are jealous u couldnt do the same thing .... u need brains if thats any indication .. grow up kid!!

    well u said it all, to start with ,we control what u read and search today ... so go hang, if u dont like it.

    - indian.