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59,870karma·8,263submissions·May 7, 2008
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My name is Bruno Goncalves bgoncalves AT data4sci DOT com
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> Pools of brainpower directed towards any task imply centralized planning. Not really... after all, isn't this what "collective intelligence" or "wisdom of the crowd" is all about? People self or…
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What's to speculate? Plenty. Are they still using PageRank or something completely different? If they modified it, how did they do it? Do they really use all available data? Or does the "don't be evil…
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Mostly speculation, but they do make a good case. Current Google PageRank incarnations are most likely long past "random surfer" models. Google simply has too much data available to be able to resist …
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Specially when it means they can't use other peoples software... their patents, on the other hand...
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Unfortunately, it doesn't really describe the algorithm. It would be interesting to see what the differences with vanilla PageRank might be.
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I think it would be good to be notified, say by email or a separate section of HN, when someone replies to one of my submissions/comments. It would also be nice to be able to have some submissions mon…
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Google's strength, thanks to PageRank is in Ranking, or, in other words, determining the best page to answer a given query.
Like I've argued here before (and I'm no Microsoft fanboy) Powerset's versio…
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why not?
6 pts
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eheh... any chance you can elaborate on that? Give us a few more details?
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> That's the long tail, and YouTube is successful precisely because it exploits the long tail of video. Considering how much money they lose everyday, I would argue that's why they are not success…