[WEB4LIB] c|net Article - new search engines

[rich at richardwiggins.com]

The Teoma approach looks interesting.  It's a "hubs and authorities" scheme, which IBM and others have talked about for a while.  Instead of counting all links equally, it tries to find the links that count, and count them.

Here's another article on it:

http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010820-2.htm

/rich

On Fri, 31 August 2001, treed at clearwater-fl.com wrote:

> 
> FWIW:
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> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6985191.html?tag=dd.ne.dht.nl-sty.0
> 
> "Web darling Google has some fresh competition: a pair of start-ups aiming
> to improve on its immensely popular recipe for serving fast, relevant search
> results untainted by pay-for-placement listings."
> 
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> -tracey

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