So I could imagine that there are some Amazon-killers out there or that at least there could be...
As much as I want to agree, I can't. Google's quick rise to power was because Google offered something much better for very little extra effort.
When Google hit the scene, search absolutely sucked so there's was an existing scratch that needed itching and to scratch that itch, all you did was search from a different page.
So the user got a massive reward from a tiny change.
But with Amazon, there's not that much pain in the mind of the online consumer. One-click ordering. Recommendations. Reviews. A very usable site by many standards.
But switching from Amazon to another bookstore requires a good amount of hassle... MUCH more effort than switching search engines and offers a much smaller reward than Google offered to frustrated internet searchers.
This article is basically a fancy way of confirming the tyranny of the majority.
Google's PageRank, as good as it is, both a) suffers from and b) perpetuates
the tyranny of the majority (aka "the rich get richer", the "power
law"). IE, the more links, the higher the pagerank, the more relevance,
the more hits, the more links...
Teoma seems to be aiming at this chink in Google's armor.
Teoma uses Subject-Specific PopularitySM. Subject-Specific Popularity
ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference
it, not just general popularity, to determine a site's level of authority.
Using vectoring algorithms to find themed hives of related content, Teoma partitions
the power law into manageable chunks. IE, the rich get richer, but at least
a dominant site in one field doesn't get artificially inflated relevance when
querying an unrelated field. At least in theory. (Kinda like laws are supposed
to keep a monopoly from illegally entering other markets, but I digress.)
This is working for Teoma: I (and others) are finding useful stuff on Teoma
that Google didn't.
Entries in the Applications track generally deal with the semantics
of the data. Some examples include:
Detecting common templates in pages, and separating out the common
structure from the individual content.
Classifying links on a page.
Detecting pages that are near-duplicates of one another.
Clustering pages by topic or type.
Even with all that, I still think that humans are the best filters (and isn't
a search engine just a programmable filter?). I suspect the rise of weblogs
might have something to do with the usefulness found in tapping into some
weblogger's idea of what's useful/cool/interesting.
So perhaps the best way to find good info is a cross between a human
and a content-vectoring search algorithm. Maybe that's why Ask
Jeeves bought Teoma.
The aforementioned site either hosts or distributes software which illegally
modifies and/or alters Blizzard Entertainment copyrighted software.
I have a good faith belief that...the information in this notice is accurate.
What would happen if the lawyer for, say, Blizzard, was personally sued for participation in abuse of process? What would happen if a judge learned that Blizzard didn't actually think bnetd was really in violation?
The threat of personal liability just might encourage other lawyers to think twice before blindly obeying when Mr. CEO hollers, "Sic 'em!".
I find this very offensive and intrusive. Those postings were made in the expectation that they were part of an informal, temporary discussion group, not a permanent archive searchable by anybody and everybody in perpetuity.
And legally, those postings are not in the public domain and Google has no right to republish them beyond the purpose that their authors originally implicitly gave permission for: temporary distribution on USENET.
Point #1) You have just blabbed away your right to gripe when the RIAA and MPAA attempt to time-limit your use of "their" copyrighted material.
Point #2) This very question of the copyright status of public postings has been tried and precedent has been set: Your Usenet posts aren't really copyrighted.
How do I know? When I wanted my Usenet tracks covered and DejaNews wouldn't comply, the EFF referred me to an attorney who had tried the actual precedent-setting case.
Suggestion #1) Adjust your expectations of privacy downward.
Psycho babble: Your posts are just as much a part of you as the events in your life. Embrace them as part of your humanity. I love you. No USENET post will ever change that.
...the worm will try to delete files of common anti-virus and firewall products. If the files are in use and cannot be deleted, the worm will create the file %SYSTEM%\Wininit.ini, which causes the files to be deleted when the computer restarts.
Slashdot Mirror
Jeremy Nixon used to work (maybe still does) at a major premium news service so he knows what he's talking about.
He has a comprehensive and reasonably up-to-date list of providers
Also, use your current NNTP server to read as much of alt.binaries.news-server-comparison as you can tolerate.
When Google hit the scene, search absolutely sucked so there's was an existing scratch that needed itching and to scratch that itch, all you did was search from a different page.
So the user got a massive reward from a tiny change. But with Amazon, there's not that much pain in the mind of the online consumer. One-click ordering. Recommendations. Reviews. A very usable site by many standards.
But switching from Amazon to another bookstore requires a good amount of hassle... MUCH more effort than switching search engines and offers a much smaller reward than Google offered to frustrated internet searchers.
This article is basically a fancy way of confirming the tyranny of the majority. Google's PageRank, as good as it is, both a) suffers from and b) perpetuates the tyranny of the majority (aka "the rich get richer", the "power law"). IE, the more links, the higher the pagerank, the more relevance, the more hits, the more links...
Teoma seems to be aiming at this chink in Google's armor.
From Teoma's page,...
Using vectoring algorithms to find themed hives of related content, Teoma partitions the power law into manageable chunks. IE, the rich get richer, but at least a dominant site in one field doesn't get artificially inflated relevance when querying an unrelated field. At least in theory. (Kinda like laws are supposed to keep a monopoly from illegally entering other markets, but I digress.)
This is working for Teoma: I (and others) are finding useful stuff on Teoma that Google didn't.
Google is already aware of this particular limitation of PageRank, as can be seen from what they suggest programmers submit to their programming contest...
Even with all that, I still think that humans are the best filters (and isn't a search engine just a programmable filter?). I suspect the rise of weblogs might have something to do with the usefulness found in tapping into some weblogger's idea of what's useful/cool/interesting.
So perhaps the best way to find good info is a cross between a human and a content-vectoring search algorithm. Maybe that's why Ask Jeeves bought Teoma.
From the mouth (keyboard) of the lawyer... What would happen if the lawyer for, say, Blizzard, was personally sued for participation in abuse of process? What would happen if a judge learned that Blizzard didn't actually think bnetd was really in violation?
The threat of personal liability just might encourage other lawyers to think twice before blindly obeying when Mr. CEO hollers, "Sic 'em!".
Pff. Yeah. That'll happen.
Point #1) You have just blabbed away your right to gripe when the RIAA and MPAA attempt to time-limit your use of "their" copyrighted material.
Point #2) This very question of the copyright status of public postings has been tried and precedent has been set: Your Usenet posts aren't really copyrighted.
How do I know? When I wanted my Usenet tracks covered and DejaNews wouldn't comply, the EFF referred me to an attorney who had tried the actual precedent-setting case.
Suggestion #1) Adjust your expectations of privacy downward.
Suggestion #2) Adjust them downward once again.
Suggestion #3) Schedule monthly privacy-expectation adjustment sessions.
Psycho babble: Your posts are just as much a part of you as the events in your life. Embrace them as part of your humanity. I love you. No USENET post will ever change that.
Non-destructive? It puts a hit out on its own opposition...
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