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Google Suggest Dissected, Part II
Bert690 writes "To complement the recent dissection of Google
Suggest's innovative front end, I investigated [Coral Link & mirror]
the back end of the system in an effort to determine just how it generates suggestions. Along with some preliminary findings, you'll find a pointer to a program for enumerating all
possible suggestions from a given starting point. I found the number of possible suggestions to be surprisingly small considering the immense scope of the web."
It's not the amount of data that a program references to create a result, it's the precision of it's result that matters... if it can do it with relatively little data, then it was designed/implemented by someone who knows what they're doing...
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
And when you enter "y," the first thing you get is "yahoo."
I have gas, but my car uses petrol.
Google needs to remember the last x queries that we submitted and the time we submitted them to better guess what we're looking for. If I hit 'p' I get Paris Hilton even though previous searches were for perl, parrot and pascal.
When will they work out that there are different classes of users out there that look for different things at different times?
As big as the web is, it's just the same boring drivel over and over... it shouldn't be too hard to make Google Suggest! :)
Berto
After some period Google will not only suggest but will also take decisions for you!
wait....
Isn't "I'm Feeling Lucky" option takes a decision for you?
... it doesn't include dirty words. I know, I may be a little immature, but it's almost always the first thing I try on anything like this. There's not even a way of turning 'safe suggest' on or off or anything. Even such innocuous (and popular!) words like 'nude' aren't suggested. What if you're searching for nude models for your art class, or the great nudes? It's just interesting... Google is becoming very corporate in terms of filtering out content these days.
Random rants about technology: http://technorants.blogspot.com
a: amazon
b: best buy
c: cnn
WHO THE FUCK SEARCHES FOR THOSE THINGS?? It amazes me how stupid people are - rather than type in amazon.com, bestbuy.com, or cnn.com, they actually search for them on Google.
Is that the internet is no longer *just* the geeks/nerds/calculator-watch crowd. There are increasing numbers of grandmothers and soccer-moms gaining access everyday. What was once a haven for the slide-rule crowd will soon become just like everything else, an asylum commercialized for the lowest common denominator - the general public. Once that milestone is reached, sites like /. will become fewer and fewer as we see more recipedot and howtogetmudoutofchildrensclothesdot popping up. It's not longer a possibility, it's an ever approaching event.
In other news, Merry Christmas!
in the early days of the internet, people were posting all sorts of websites on all sorts of topics. as the web became more commercialized, most geeks were (rightfully) worried that major commercial hubs would be created that would attract the majority of attention and dilute the importance of the more peripheral areas of the web. this trend is already underway, and tools such as google suggest will hasten the decline. users will be directed to the areas that most people are already going, thereby increasing the traffic to portals and decreasing traffic to niche or enthusiast sites. in my opinion, google suggest is ANTI-internet.
There already is: http://www.loconet.ca/. Actually, it was released a day of Suggest was introduced!
No, not entirely obvious when have suggestions like "privacy alert when was the last time you cleaned your pc
clean out your computer and make it run smoother along with protecting
your privacy today try it free with the test now option for secure
privacy clean your computer at least once a week i want to... gtgt...."
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=e
that long address wont help anyone.
Even if it is in beta.
Why does yahoo do this