Google To Gain a Rival? 169
markpapadakis writes "Seems like Google got itself a new rival, which seem to have the potential to actually challenge successfully our beloved'G'. hTeoma Technologia launched a beta version of its search engine which enhances the link analysis idea, borrowing some ideas from Google and extending it to recognise 'communities' of subjects."
Tags, tags, tags... (Score:1)
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:1)
YEA!!!.
whatever. I tend to read slashdot on a daily basis to see 9/10ths of the population do 180degree turns.
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This stuff is still beta (Score:1)
"Oh, I've started work on this new OS. It has the potential to be better than Windows and Linux, with quite a bit of work. But um, start using it right now." Sure, people.
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:1)
Also, when the nanotechnology revolution arrives, would you still be in favor of patents even they make no real economic sense?...in a world where everyone can have virtually anything they want, and tech is advanced by hobbyists and academic competition.
It's also a given that most new ideas in the future will be invented by insanely fast & complicated "thinking" computers. And, we should look upon these inventions as gifts, not limited monopolies for the corporation that owns the slavemachine.
Re:Teoma runs intrusive spidering. (Score:1)
You mean Flash Intro Movie at 11.
Re:Teoma's crawler sucks (Score:1)
Emailed them about this and got no response, so no renaming directories for me, I'm just shitcanning 63.236.92/24 for a while.
link still not working (Score:2)
Bad with non english pages (Score:2)
So it groups result under silly "Topics" like "Le" or "De" ( = "the" or "of")
Too bad...
Seems to be based on a very old scan.... (Score:2)
If they want to have this be actually useful they will need more up-to-date scans of the Web than once every 8 or 10 months (!).
oh, the health care (Score:2)
> per person in l998 while the United States expended $4,270 per person
> insuring only 84 percent of our citizens."
Which is why we see large number of americans going across the border for canadian healht care.
oh, wait a minute . . .
:)
>not only that, its cruel
> and disgusting to hold people's health ransom for money...
Far better to make it illegal to own, say, a private CAT scan machine, and hold health ransom to time, while allowing vetrinarians to have the same machines to use on pets (which stand idle while people die waiting their turn for the human ones).
hawk
robots.txt (Score:3)
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:1)
Readers of this thread might be interested to see this page [tinaja.com] at Don Lancaster's web site to read about how patents fail to benefit the little guy.
OpenSourcerers [opensourcerers.com]
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:1)
Your AIDS cure argument doesn't make any sense. There's a PTO for a reason. If a cure was simple and cheap to make, it would probably be too simple to be patented.
I'm against software patents, mostly because they don't make sense. I'm not against patents in many other fields, because the research in those fields that wouldn't have been done without them.
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:1)
Note that after a specified time period, patented material DOES go into public domain. That's half the point of a patent, to share innovation.
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:2)
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:4)
Re:Teoma runs intrusive spidering. (Score:1)
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Re:Teoma runs intrusive spidering. (Score:2)
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Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:2)
Interesting you should use this analogy. I've just recently been asked to participate in a genetic study of diabetes (I've been a diabetic since I was 4). All I have to do for now is provide a blood sample. In the information I was given, they specifically say that you have to give up any rights to products that may be derived from research. Specifically, they want to be able to patent the products that they produce from this research so that pharmaceutical companies can license the rights to manufacture them.
So, do I have a problem with this. Nope, none whatsoever. Because, if the big pharmaceutical companies can't protect their product then they won't manufacture it. And if they don't, who will? Who else can afford the R&D? It may be that by giving up my rights to this research I will help to provide a cure or prevention for diabetes. I'm happy with that.
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:2)
If it's beta, Google has no worries (Score:2)
And when Apache and Debian show up at the top of a query on "Linux", it throws the sophistication of Google's relevance calculations into relief. Apache and Debian are linked from a ton of web pages, but the overwhelming majority of those pages are message board postings and message board TOCs or things like "This site runs on..." page footers. What this says to me is that Teoma isn't doing a good job of weighting the relevance and prominence of inbound links. It's as though it's going purely on the raw number of times the search term appears in a page linking to Site x regardless of how many are clearly identical and thus probably links from menus and TOCs, and not from the pages' unique content, where a link should count far more.
Re:Nice marketing, google! (Score:5)
Hmm. I use Google because it finds what I want faster, more efficiently and more accurately than any other search engine I've used.
I love the clean simple fast interface. I love the lack of flashing banner ads. I love the relevance of the text based ads, and the differentiation between those and my search results. I love the categories, and that half the time it'll show me a category listing exactly what I'm after, as well as the normal list of sites. I love the fact that I can have Google in Dutch, despite not speaking that language. I love the site: tag and the difference it makes when looking for UK sites or for something on a specific website. I love the cache and how it insures me against the aging web. I love the sheer breadth of material available. I love the approach and insight of the company, how it focusses on searching, making searching easier, and on being good at searching, and doesn't get distracted by obscure business models. I love the way that occasionally they switch out the normal logo for one that celebrates a given day, and then links that logo to a search result that is relevant.
Oddly enough, the fact that they're running on x thousand PCs running a free operating system doesn't really impact on me at all. I have immense respect for the engineering involved, and for the responsiveness of the site, but I also wonder if a hardcore IBM mainframe might have been cheaper overall.
If MS bought Google, I would still use it. If they started showing banner ads, popups, forcing you to hold a Passport account, prevent non-IE browsers viewing the site, then no, I wouldn't use it.
Right now there is no search engine that comes close to the beauty of Google. I recognise that beauty from a technological perspective, irregardless of the back-end OS being used.
~Cederic
Re:Teoma runs intrusive spidering. (Score:3)
> ANYONE CAN READ IT
Actually, if I found your spider ignoring my robots.txt, I'd block you and you'd never see my site again.
Re:Nice marketing, google! (Score:1)
Google got popular among Linux fans because they went out of their way to index Linux-oriented content during their beta period. The PR that they ran on Linux was bandied about slashdot, but wasn't what seduced this crowd.
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Re:can google take the heat? (Score:2)
During Google's Beta period, they focused on indexing tech-related sites, specifically Unix/Linux/Perl/etc related stuff.
I think that's why the fanbase on Slashdot grew so quickly - they were exactly the target market. And the expectation that they would spread the word to their technical and non-technical friends has been successful. I know several non-tech users of Google who must have found them by word-of-mouth (seeing how they don't advertise).
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Hum. This looks like it could be interesting. (Score:5)
I just decided to go take a poke around, and as a test, I decided to perform a search on linux mips. (I've been browsing around recently and doing a bit of hacking on it lately, and I know which sites I found the most relevant for it.)
The results, currently, are pretty similar. The first link on the page pointed directly to the Linux/MIPS HOWTO, which I've been referring to quite often recently. Everything else is quite similar down the rest of the first 10 results as well.
Google still has it's advantages over Teoma at the moment though:
It's one of those things that quite frequently are useful when you're searching for something: instead of landing on the main page of the site (if that contains your search terms, and is of course linked more often), you can go directly to the part of the site that addresses exactly what you're looking for.
I really hate it when a site that I want to go visit has pulled it's content or moved it around. But if I'm doing a search on Google, or I even know the last known address of a page, I can just head over to the Google cache and often pull up exactly what I'm looking for, even if the content has been moved or deleted on it's original server. Sites, unfortunately, do vanish from time to time. It's always nice to be able to access that content when you need it most.
Anyway, that would just be my whole 2c on it.
Re:Not exactly tough competition for Google (yet) (Score:2)
You forgot the most important of all... :-)
No "I'm feeling Lucky" button!
Re:oh, the health care (Score:1)
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
Re:oh, the health care (Score:1)
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
Bad URL (Score:3)
Here's the real link. [searchenginewatch.com]
Quality (Score:1)
I tried several sources and it got close, but no cigar. Try a search for Benchmade 804. It pulls up three links to knife dealers, but none of the three actually have that knife on them. In google, it pulls up the manufacturers website, and lots of dealers selling that specific knife.
I'm glad that google may have a running mate. Google flattened Yahoo and Altavista. I think some good competition will keep Google progressing into new/better/faster methods (ie. Intel - AMD).
But, for the mean time, google is my search engine of choice and the Google toolbar will be on every browser I use.
Re:Google Loyal (Score:1)
Looking forward to a lighter head.
AZ
Google Loyal (Score:5)
I spent a good bit on an adword compaign that picked theKompany and other KDE keywords following theKompany's claim that such competitive advertising was illegal. Needless to say the KDE camp went all out, hit spamming my ads, I went though around 10,000x the number of impressions/hour I was supposed to. Google staff was prompt, courteous, fixed the problem, tracked the spammers back to germany (?) and refunded my money.
As for credibility, they'd be one company that I'd be willing to give my email address to, knowing that they get it and won't be sending me "Important Updates" every month.
Competition is great, but let's not forget the good that Google has done. We need a well funded company to fight off things like the Altavista patent lawsuits on searching.
I don't understand why some folks are so virrulantly anti-google. The flack they took for putting up the deja archives who totally unreasonable seeing as they had barely got the archives out from under deja.com's decaying body. And their new image search is damn cool.
Re:Teoma gives wrong results (Score:1)
Markus
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Re:Teoma gives wrong results (Score:3)
just my 2 c
ms
Re:no ads! (Score:2)
This is the best search engine ever! (Score:1)
Of course, the Google results seem to be more relevant (Teoma's search brought up an obscure page on my site as an "Expert link"), and Teoma has been known to blatantly ignore the robot exclusion standard (I remember tons of accesses from it on sites I had tried to exclude from spidering). Despite the wonderful increases in traffic that Teoma may give me, I think I'll stick with Google for now.
Re:no ads! (Score:2)
Re:Teoma gives wrong results (Score:2)
That's what the article on searchenginewatch says:
Teoma is a crawler-based service and has a collection of about 100 million
URLs. Of course, to be a serious contender in the search engine space, Teoma will
need to grow, and it is planning to do so.
Re:Speaking of rivals... (Score:3)
I would also appreciate it if all high rankings of a site are displayed. It helps you to find out where you must still submit your own site.
Fun with search engines (Score:3)
Speaking of rivals... (Score:5)
I doubt it's a replacement for Google, but I recommend it the next time you're searching for a topic that might have several different meanings.
Re:Nice marketing, google! (Score:1)
Vivisimo: Another interesting search engine (Score:1)
Interesting thing is that it categorizes the search results .. very nice. Especially the option to search patents.
AIDS cure (Score:2)
And so what if it's expensive? Say you had AIDS and the cure cost $10,000. Are you going to go buy a sports car instead?
You sound like one of those "I'll take what I want and rationalize it later" type of people. Here's a tip: If you don't bother rationalizing, you can take things faster.
Re:hmmm (Score:2)
If you were in charge, maybe they wouldn't be.
Fortunately, I live in a free society where transactions are voluntary. No one is forced to produce, and no one is forced to buy, but we do it anyway because it's in our individual best interest.
Each transaction makes both the buyer and the seller better off. That's why we both say "Thank You" after the transaction. This is why transactions happen, and this is why more transactions are better than fewer.
Your efforts to reduce the incentive for the producer will result in less producer effort and fewer transactions. This makes both the buyers and the seller worse off.
In the case of an AIDS cure, worse off for the buyer means DEAD.
Still seems a poor subsitute for google. (Score:2)
With Google, I was searching for information which turned out to be on a defunct website. I was able to get what I wanted by searching within the google caches for the individual url's linked to. With this new one, that's right out.
Google also got the newsgroups that deja had. They are still not quite up to snuff (threading still sucks), but Tehoma lacks even that.
On the other hand Tehoma IS still in beta, and will probably get better. They will continually be indexing the web, and if they are smart will be refining their search process to give more revelant links.
Even if they do rise to a par with Google, I'd still use Google just because the caching of pages is so useful.
Re:Bad URL (Score:3)
Re:But will it have the charm of Google? (Score:2)
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Re:I wish Google (or somebody) would add... (Score:4)
The near word is implicitely in every search-- pages rank higher when the search terms are found near each other.
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Re:Teoma runs intrusive spidering. (Score:3)
Re:no ads! (Score:1)
Google sells a kind of ad: Sponsored Links, which come up before the first result, are commercial sites that pay google to put their result at the top of searches with certain keywords. This is not payola, Google makes it clear that the advertised result is separate from the other results.
Google also licenses the technology to other companies, as mentioned before. But most importantly, if you read here [google.com] you can read all about their business model, including how they make money, and how they are owned by a large parent company which probably doesn't have to fear bankruptcy any time soon.
Re:what a ripoff... (Score:2)
//rdj
Re:I wish Google (or somebody) would add... (Score:1)
Um, no it won't - the search suggestion given does exactly what you requested. If your you search for john doe it will return pages that contain the words john and doe in them. If you search for "john doe" it will return pages that contain that phase in itself. Google has search tips [google.com] pages explaining how to structure your searches. The one on refining your search [google.com] covers the above.
HTH
Re:no ads! (Score:4)
"Currently in beta, the site is primarily intended to demonstrate Teoma's technology to potential partners or buyers."
Re:I wish Google (or somebody) would add... (Score:2)
Also, Google lack the ability to do things like:
True, many poeple cannot understand how to formulate a Boolean query correctly, and that may be why Google doesn't feel it's important. However, just like a CLI is better for some tasks than a GUI, a Boolean search it better for some tasks than what Google has now.
I wish Google (or somebody) would add... (Score:3)
and be able to filter out the crap.
If google would allow a post-processing phase to apply this sort of logic AV would disappear from my list of search engines.
Re:SIAM Conference Keynote Talk (Score:2)
Then you have to consider stuff like 404 pages that redirect to a page that links to the main site.
After that there are banner ads etc which you may or may not want to exclude from the weighting.
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Re:oh, the health care (Score:1)
It doesn't matter how "free" the system is (and based on my tax bill, I'd have to say I'm still paying quite a lot for medical insurance), if it doesn't work, and most government programs don't, it doesn't do you any good.
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:1)
Loyal people like you, right?
Personally I don't care if they ripped off every one of Googles concepts, if their engine works better I'll use it.
Like another poster said, without patents, I.P. ventures aren't worth it.
Re:Teoma runs intrusive spidering. (Score:2)
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Re:Teoma runs intrusive spidering. (Score:2)
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Money (Score:3)
bash-2.04$
Google more fault tolerant (Score:1)
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:1)
Google will adapt (Score:5)
They already have 5 of the 6 requirements ( as I see em):
1. Existing, proven, scalable infrastructure
2. Gob-loads of search engine experience && the programmers/net admins to back it up
3. A better name (Marketing, sadly, does count)
4. ~1.3 billion pages already 'spidered' and waiting to be re-munched using any technique they deem appropriate
5. A lot of high-paying corporate customers (Yahoo!, RedHat etc) which helps pay for everything... and lets face it... money talks.
ALl they really need is an algorithm.... whish shouldn't be a problem from the guys that revolutionized searching in the first place.
My $0.02
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
Teoma not 'feeling lucky' (Score:5)
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
Teoma Expert Links results (Score:1)
Re:Not exactly tough competition for Google (yet) (Score:2)
Ditto (or at least top 5, depending on what search phrase you use, but any obvious ones seem to work). Like I said, not the most scientific method and I guess it's all down to how effective their spiders are. Having said that, I'm still going to take it personally : (
Re:Ignogance ? (Score:3)
Not exactly tough competition for Google (yet) (Score:4)
Oh, and it doesn't seem to have indexed as much of the web as Google yet (admittedly, tested using the not-very-scientific method of searching for myself and my site), but I guess that'll come with time.
can google take the heat? (Score:3)
most of us who use Google were fans waay back when their database was a fraction of the size that Teoma's is now, and we still swore by it. It's interesting that some of the same people I have talked to who were militant in their support of Google (is, it's "our" search engine!) now are disdaining Teoma.
And I am sure that Google will respond to the challenge with honor - I can't imagine that Google would try a patent challenge. It seems so out of character. But then again, I may be guilty of putting Google on a pedestal just because it was started by other geeks. Though one could make the argument that in today's downturn economy, patent litigation is just good business sense. There are no morals or honor in pure capitalism.
I'll add Teoma to my bookmarks - if they give me better results than Google, I'll switch in a heartbeat. Even if they run M$ IIS !
read the article! (Score:3)
right, obviously, since the article clearly says the site is just a demo to attract interest from investors. Teoma has not yet decided whether or not to run as a standalone search engine.
PLEASE read the article before posting
SIAM Conference Keynote Talk (Score:3)
It basically involves two weighted listing of sites. Sites in the second list pointed to by sites in the first list earn weight points based on the weighted value of sites in the first list. Sites in the first list earn weighted value based on the site that they point to in the second list.
You iterate this a few times and you end up with the first list being a listing of "Link Pages" which have a lot of useful links on the subject. The second list becomes an ordered listing of "authortive sites", sites that are pointed to by many other sites.
What's really neat about this is this method has the ability to find seperate communities. For instances, search for the word jaguar and this method will give you authoritive sites and link pages for the car, the animal, and the atari games system quite easily....becuase each meaning of the word jaguar would have a distinct grouping of authortive sties and link pages.
What's more is this type of problem can be formulated as a eigenvector calculation for the matrix of link pages, and authoritive sites.
-jef
Re:can google take the heat? (Score:3)
Good thing they aren't! According to Netcraft [netcraft.com], they are running Apache/1.3.12 on Solaris 8 [netcraft.com].
Ian
Link analysis info (Score:2)
Anyway, none of the ideas used by Google and now Teoma are really new -- academics have been doing this stuff for a while now.
supert intelligent search engines (Score:2)
This idea is fine, until you look at the idea that any super intelligent AI like that might censor the links for your own good. You might not find anti microsoft links unless you specified hate and microsoft, for example. Or it might be too much stress in your life to know about the impending comet strike, and so that is left out of the search results, even if you choose to vacation at ground zero.
After all, it is smarter than humans, and hopefully is more moral? The question on what to do with "the questions of morals", and whose "morals to program it with" becomes very disturbing when applied to super intelligent search engines.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire [eplugz.com] comic strip
Re:Well, it's more a complement (Score:3)
On a slightly related note, Google's director of operations and head sys-admin gave a great technical presenation of why google runs so damn fast last week at the Bay LISA meeting. Two of the more interesting things were that Google's colors on their search page were chosen for rendering efficiency and the fact that they have a team of people who actually count the bytes on their pages to make sure that you are getting all the necessary info with the least possible bytes. Considering it was a free talk, it was very interesting for us linux enthusiasts.
Hopefully this newcomer will go to the same lengths to make their search engine competitive...
Don't advertisers pay to have their ad come up? (Score:2)
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:2)
No, your wrong. Research will go back to the 'public domain' or 'common knowledge' area and be done at University - supported by all.
When a 'new better' method is founded, the 'good parts' of capitalism will empower anyone who cares to, to try and make that thing better, faster and cheaper. If you allow hole realms of knowledge (like ranking pages based upon their a href's) you will enable a company to operate *contrary* to what a 'free market' would provide. You cannot have both numerous and broad monopolies and free markets. This is ridiculous and counter productive.
Note: I myself favour a controlled and planned economy, capitalism enables terrible choices which do not align with healthy sustainable futures (like pollution, consumerism, exploitation of labour and whatnot) - *B*U*T* if the Plutocrats who run the G8 are going to run this capitalism game, they at least have to do it right by not enshrining businesses as all-powerfull-gods-of-knowledge... but I digress.
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:2)
See again, your stuck in a rut... why are we only researching medicing that provieds a 'good return'? WTF is our motivation again? oh yeaah, its HEALHTY PEOPLE, when we have an idea on how to make PEOPLE HEALTHY we should INVESTIGATE. BigPharm only investigates what makes profit..
Do you understand the clear and distinct different motives here?
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:3)
Big Pharm spends *by far* more on advertising than Research. See here. [essential.org] Also, to as a side-note, please see here [washingtonmonthly.com] to understand that free-market capitalism in the health care industry doesnt make sense; to note "Canada insured 100 percent of its citizens for $2,250 per person in l998 while the United States expended $4,270 per person insuring only 84 percent of our citizens.", not only that, its cruel and disgusting to hold people's health ransom for money...
De-Regulating the health care industry is more about stable profit for big-pharm than anything else.. Canada and Britain's citizens would do well to understand what 'American Style' health care really means. Fewer healthy people, higher cost, profiteering at the expense of your health (literally).
What does this have to do with R&D & Patents? Patents are weapons used by the Health Care Industry to kill people for money. The 'R & D' they do is to make money. Neither thing has 'beans' to do with Healthy People. The R&D should be done by doctors with alot less attachment to profit motives, which by nature, make for an *UNHEALTHY* "Health Industry"..
"So how do you motivate people to make others healthy when your only incentive is profit" would be a better question.
Choosing sides (Score:2)
Well, if you search for Linux [teoma.com] using this thing the first site you get is Debian [debian.org], not linux.org [linux.org]. (Following that are Freshmeat [freshmeat.net] and Apache [apache.org], incidentally.)
Google's first hits [google.com], on the other hand, are linux.org [linux.org], linux.com [linux.com], and RedHat [redhat.com].
Could this be intentional?
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:2)
Yes, Google has a rather nifty approach to ranking and search heuristics, but tough noogies on them if someone else can write software that reacts similarly to the information they gather from the world. As it is, Teoma has some features in their beta that differentiate them significantly from Google (in good ways). Already I've managed to see who is linking to me (and not having to rely on referrer logs for that) and that is way cool (and if Google shows that, I am interested in knowing how to see it).
On a less enthusiastic note, a search on "ichimunki" turned up www.ichimunki.com first (woohoo!) and a whole boatload of Slashdot postings (bleah, who needs that indexed).
Teoma runs intrusive spidering. (Score:5)
I guess it's time to rename my directories again.
Re:no ads! (Score:3)
Additonally, who's to say that those google-ites haven't improved their technology over the last year or so. I'm sure many of us have turned exlusively to Google's tried and true system... oh so easy... oh so accurate.
Finally I think we love Google's look and those tiny little modifications they make to their logo on the special (but mostly American) dates.
Hey, if someone can better it, we could all use a search with a button "The right link."
yoink
But will it have the charm of Google? (Score:3)
Some of the better search criterion that lead to my rather benign site: [ridiculopathy.com]
Re:Nice marketing, google! (Score:3)
For instance, one of the dominant /. themes is the incessant railing about the evils of IP and patents. Yet google has what probably amounts to a boatload of patents, and they don't seem to get called on it (nor does Transmeta, or Tivo, for that matter). All the patents references I saw in the earlier comments were along the lines of "hmm, google has these patents, wonder if we're set for a big patent fight".
I bet if MS owned and operated google, /.ers would hate it and would never stop editorializing about the consequent coming of the Apocalypse.
So far, no contest... (Score:2)
1. Searches default to allow embedded matches, so that a search for '2gb bios limit' yields a bunch of crap about 3.2gb limits, etc.
2. Results give about a line and a half of text from the site for you to review, but it's not necessarily text that contains your search criteria, so it's hard to judge relevance for yourself.
I judge it not ready for prime time.
no ads! (Score:3)
Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:3)
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:3)
I'm sure everybody remember the Amazon.com 1-Click patente (links/updates, please). I would not be surprised if they managed to patente the Ranking mechanism.
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Re:no ads! (Score:5)
This teoma, I'm sure, is just trying to attract clients. Just wait, they'll get ads soon.
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:5)
, first. Google examines link structures all over the web. By doing so, it can give every page a popularity rating known as "PageRank" (named after Google cofounder Larry Page). When you do a search, URLs with high PageRanks are more likely to be listed first. However, this will only happen if the pages also match other criteria, such as containing your search terms or being identified as being relevant to your search terms by analyzing the context of links.
Teoma operates in an opposite fashion. When you do a search, Teoma looks across the entire web to find pages that contain your search terms or which are considered relevant to those terms based on link context. After finding a matching set of documents, which it calls a "community, Teoma then examines the links between just this set, to determine which are the most popular.
#end quote.
I don't see how this can infringe on any patents, unless google patented the method of ranking pages by external linkages (can they patent that?).
Re:Teoma runs intrusive spidering. (Score:2)
http://www.slashdot.org/robots.txt
Well, it's more a complement (Score:3)
It seems to be not concentrated in pages but in sites, so being rather a different approach to google.
In any case a link to keep and a technology to watch. There are never too many good search engines. Good luck to them!.
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Re:Hum. This looks like it could be interesting. (Score:2)
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Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:2)
Re:Err - patent fight on the horizon? (Score:3)