RE: Google

by "Ann Ezzell" <amcbainezzell(at)alum.mit.edu>

 Date:  Tue, 21 May 2002 10:24:55 -0700
 To:  <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
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And Google is now tops in "search hours" ratings:

http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/02/05-ratings.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org 
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] On Behalf Of Kid Stevens
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
> Subject: Google
> 
> 
> This round about discussion, well I worked at IBM four doors from the
> Google Search engine inventor.  He made it open source and ask.com and
> Google.com came about.
> 
> Google is based on an smart engine; ' "The red fox in New 
> Mexico please no
> traps or hides" '.
> Yahoo is based on the original UNIX engine; ' Fox ' or  '"New 
> Mexico" +"Red
> Fox" - trap* -hide* '.
> 
> As long as we use different engines we will always get 
> different answers
> and ratings.  Those two engines evaluate those terms in very different
> ways.  Even a single word gets twisted.
> 
> Yahoo does not care about "wanted" any different than "want." 
>  Google knows
> you are referring to the past when you use "wanted."
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Kid Stevens
> 
> "O! this learning, what a thing it is."
> 
> William Shakespeare
> 

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