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

[Christina Wodtke]

> I wondered if someone would quibble about cities.  Larry Page and Sergey
> Brin were at Stanford when they invented Google.  Of course the algorithms
> have been tweaked since the company set up shop in Mountain View,

I'm just excited to show off my recently acquired knowledge of the south
bay, since I was the person who never left San Francisco except to leave the
country, and now live in Palo Alto. Woo hoo! Invite me to coffee, you south
bay denizens!

Anyhow, the algorithms are always in motion, form what I hear on the street.
in fact, the weight form blog links is one of many examples of how the
algorithm has changed.

Anyhow, in a more helpful vein, did someone point you to matt's lovely
presentation?
http://www.blackbeltjones.com/presentations/asist2002/asist.ppt
BBCi did use best bets, but were toppled in their presentation by the
tyranny of the search engine metaphor.

Bloug commented on an early implementation
http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000048.html