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