[Sigia-l] "Best Bets" or "Accidental Thesaurus" Examples?

[christina wodtke]

> of their hit list is a function of a scoring algorithm chosen in Palo Alto

Mountain View. (Also New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Detroit,
Boston, Dallas, and even Canada, UK, Japan Germany and France)

> and the happenstance of how many people link to a given page.  (Indeed,
> Google is the ultimate example of a search engine that gives high credence
> to "best sellers".)

This algorithm is more complex that that. that's just the part they'll talk
about. I was just at a search engine conference and they were impressively
tight-lipped about the content of their algorithm.



Just a FYI.