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.

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Gives new meaning to ...

[WilliamsDA]

hunt and peck

Pigeons? they are just trying to confuse you

[Emugamer]

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? ......

New home for India's unwanted pigeons

[Reziac]

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!

And this is why..

[baptiste]

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!

Makes you wonder

[mocm]

what's behind the carnivore program.

Interesting...

[grnbrg]

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

This just proves Teoma is doomed. . .

[An Onerous Coward]

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?