Archive for May, 2008

Search Engines Are Simple Things

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Well in fact, search engines are rather far from beeing simple. What makes them appear simple is clever engineering, market research and stunning amounts of technology. The core tasks of a web search engine are tough enough:

  1. knowing what a user really is looking for
  2. knowing which of the 10s of billions of web pages or services are most relevant
  3. knowing how to distinguish web spam, porn or malicious services from regular services
  4. making the gazillions of data accessible to all users asap / instantaniously

This blog will look into the engines and will try to explain them. How are they paying off commercially? What comes next? What is actually available (but nobody knows it)?

I hope you will enjoy this blog. Lots of fun!

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