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Google's Pageranking Explained
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.
hunt and peck
I wonder if they also use the pigeons to carry data on their internal network?
Remember, there were no nuclear weapons before women were allowed to vote.
Actually, I just came back from Teoma, talked to an engineer there, and he told me that using Pigeon Clusters is so outdated.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.
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.
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hmmm what happened to the post as Anonymous Coward box? oh well, Google Doesn't know where I live, do they?
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!
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
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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But the term Pigeon Prank (tm) patented process would be more appropriate.
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.
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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No wonder the first 100 hits for "monitors" are from the Viewsonic site...
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Are they able to carry coconuts?
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what's behind the carnivore program.
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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...
:)
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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?
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
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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