Feb 16, 2003 | Google, web_services
Google is very powerful, but it has been cautious about expanding its reach. It bought Deja.com, a service that collects and indexes Usenet newsgroup postings, and it recently started Google News, which is a fascinating alternative to CNN and MSNBC. Yesterday Google...
Sep 25, 2002 | Google, news
Google is bringing its remarkable technology to harvesting the news. Here’s a link to Google News, presenting the top news stories of the moment without any human intervention. Google News software continuously crawls more than 4,000 Web news sources, looking for the...
Apr 1, 2002 | Google, humor
Google has posted a fascinated look at the technology that produces its search results. Google relies on PigeonRank, a system for ranking web pages using low cost pigeon clusters. Trained pigeons select relevant web sites from among thousands of similar pages....
Mar 13, 2002 | Google, search
This article starts out by explaining the different approaches chosen by Google, Yahoo, and AltaVista for indexing the Internet – and makes it easier to understand why Google is so scarily accurate. It drifts a bit at the end, but the first half is interesting...
Nov 27, 2001 | Google, search
Google is experimenting with different ways to rank web sites when it reports search results. Here’s an interesting article about search engines and the extraordinary things done to increase site rankings on Google and the other search engines.
