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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 rules. Teoma sucks.
But, seriously, Google has all sorts of features (cache, newsgroups, api, etc, etc) that Teoma doesn't. It's not just the size of your index, it's how you let people use it. There's a reason Google is my (and many other people's) start page.
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."
This is some truly awful grammar and word choice, to the point where I can't figure out what the point is whatsoever. The whole first part of the paragraph seems poorly translated from some foreign space language. C'mon, slashdot editors... edit.
In some ways, Teoma is more innovative. It's using an extension of an algorithm designed a few years ago by researchers, HITS, that actually goes beyond just searching an index based on a keyword into utilizing the idea of social networks to try to get you closer to what you want. However, this probably impacts search speeds, which I'm guessing is a lot of the reason why their searchspace is so much smaller than the ones used by more contemporary search engines like Yahoo! or Google.
People don't really dig that far with search engines, and I think Teoma's features will be wasted because of this -- most people are just using it to look up the domain for an organization rather than exhaustively researching every page they can get their hands on.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
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SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and the bad of both engine.
And so it begins
They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time.
Quotes here anyone? Is this a quote? Are they summarizing? We'll never know
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.
Google's approach or Teoma's approach??
It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories.
Last time I checked, "the approach" was singular
I'm not trying to be a troll or a grammar_nazi here, but is just a little proofreading too much to ask for? This write-up is nearing the 1.0 sentence-to-error ratio
Type "Slashdot" Into Teoma, here's what I got:
1. Article about Andover IPO
2. Slashdot.net domain placeholder/squatter
3. USGS article detailing the Slashdot effect on it's web site.
...and so on. Slashdot itself isn't even in the top 10. Unscientific I know - but the reason I use Google is that the most relevant like is almost always the top one (and certainly in the top 10).
Teoma misses the obvious stuff. Like "Slashdot," which does not bring one to slashdot.org within the first ten hits.
Teoma's technology is cool, and I'm glad to see Google getting challenged - I think it will make Google a stronger search engine.
how is this funny?
damn moderators on crack
In clear English, that would be:
I am a pedant.
I can not even begin to count the number of crappy links google has tried to give me because it decided that some similar word was "close enough" to what i was searching for.
That might be a useful feature for when i'm unsure of what i'm looking for, but most of the time i _know_ what i want to find, and i don't appreciate Google cluttering things up with other "likely" variants. Using the "exact phrase" in the advanced search option returns the same inexact search results.
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