cypezokyli
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Joined: 20 Dec 2005
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| Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo! |
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“Google is very good at many types of search, but in many instances it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try searching for the term ‘Tampa hotels’, for example, and you will not get any useful results,” he said.
Spammers and commercial ventures are also learning how to manipulate Google’s computer-based search, he added.
Mr Wales believes that Google’s computer-based algorithmic search program is no match for the editorial judgment of humans.
Google searches are conducted using an algorithm that calculates how many other websites are linked to a certain site, which in turn gives the material found by the search a ranking. Therefore, the first result in any Google search is the website that has the most links pointing to it. |
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“Essentially, if you consider one of the basic tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: ‘this page is good, this page sucks’,” Mr Wales said. “Computers are notoriously bad at making such judgments, so algorithmic search has to go about it in a roundabout way.
“But we have a really great method for doing that ourselves,” he added. “We just look at the page. It usually only takes a second to figure out if the page is good, so the key here is building a community of trust that can do that.” |
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1264117.ece
elsewhere he said :
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"Research on the internet has fundamental importance to modern society . the way which results are ranked influences our opinion for the world. i consider it necessary to create an alternative, which will be completely transparent and open to everybody
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dont really know what this guy is planning to do ...and whether what he will do will be better .
but he raises an interesting point on the matter "internet ethics".
it never crossed my mind before but :
who should decide which websites appear first on a search engine ?
and based on what should it be decided ? |
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