[Sigia-l] The category of "Miscellaneous"

Eric Scheid eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au
Wed Jun 16 22:22:28 EDT 2004


On 16/6/04 8:07 PM, "Listera" <listera at rcn.com> wrote:

>> You're either missing the point or avoiding it: Google's algorithm relies on
>> the billions of man-hours which have been invested into making relevant
>> links.
> 
> Google hasn't spent billions of man-hours to manually organize the web or
> make relevant links, neither those who created the raw content.

google's excellent search results depends on the linkings that have been
made in the web, and for the most part those linkings are human-determined.
Google currently claims to have indexed 4,285,199,774 pages.

e.




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