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Comparison Of Google to Teoma
randomErr writes "SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and the bad of both engine. They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories."
google has two great things:
a) pigeon rank
b) linux
Teoma has:
a) no animal employement
b) windows.
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writes "SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and the bad of both engine. They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories
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In clear English, that would be:
writes "SearchEngineWatch.com has compared good and bad aspects of multiple search engines. They wrote that the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we actually look for the communities after you type the query in. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also different from the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories."
Sigh. Sure hope you're not writing any Open Source documentation
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Google groups (Newsgroups) and the page caching. The page caching has been great for all of those sites that keep getting /.ed.
Also, finding Googlisms are fun. That is trying to find two words in the same search query that where the query only returns one result.
I typed in a computer query and 5th on the result list was someone from Entertainment Tonight.
You too? I thought it was just me:
query: whois failure
result: John Tesh
GMD
watch this
Registrant:
Google, Inc. (GOOGLESUCKS-DOM)
2400 E. Bayshore Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
US
Domain Name: GOOGLESUCKS.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
DNS Admin (DA17675-OR) dns-admin@GOOGLE.COM
Google, Inc.
2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
Mountain View , CA 94043
US
650-318-0200
Fax- 650-618-1499
Record expires on 15-Oct-2002.
Record created on 15-Oct-1999.
Database last updated on 25-Jun-2002 20:47:22 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.32.10
NS2.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.34.10
NS3.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.36.10
NS4.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.38.10
I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
Search for the term "search engine" on Google, and Google is ranked first.
Search for the term "search engine" on Teoma, and Teoma is ranked nowhere in the results! (On the first page, at least). Lycos ranks tops there.
You decide.
Is it just me or does Northern Lights sound like a brand of cigarettes?