Comments on: Google Copies from Ask.com http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/25/google-copies-from-askcom/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen E. Arnold http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/25/google-copies-from-askcom/comment-page-1/#comment-46373 Stephen E. Arnold Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:31:30 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=5444#comment-46373 Kwaldrania, Yep, I haven't read or done anything since 1981. Your acumen underscores your knowledge and research skills. You are a genius, Stephen Arnold, March 27, 2009 Kwaldrania,

Yep, I haven’t read or done anything since 1981. Your acumen underscores your knowledge and research skills. You are a genius,

Stephen Arnold, March 27, 2009

]]> By: Jurgen http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/25/google-copies-from-askcom/comment-page-1/#comment-46308 Jurgen Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:52:21 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=5444#comment-46308 By the same reasoning - search in nothing else but information retrieval. Nothing is new - everything was invented in the sixties and seventies, yes? You are probably an old foggy fella - who read his last paper in 1981. Technologies which ask proposed first are far more intricate than just clustering - dealing with specific corpus of user queries. It is not just "scale". By the same reasoning – search in nothing else but information retrieval. Nothing is new – everything was invented in the sixties and seventies, yes?

You are probably an old foggy fella – who read his last paper in 1981. Technologies which ask proposed first are far more intricate than just clustering – dealing with specific corpus of user queries. It is not just “scale”.

]]> By: Brian http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/25/google-copies-from-askcom/comment-page-1/#comment-46262 Brian Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:17:02 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=5444#comment-46262 I've always admired the Ask 3D interface and how it populates (and clutters) every inch of the screen with data fuzzily related to the query, no matter how vague it may be. A couple of years ago I had the privilege of playing with the Grokker product by Groxis which introduces similar functionality but presents it in a graphical, manipulable fashion which provides a wonderful sense of relationship and scale of correlated data points to the end user. Soon after Google introduced results clustering on their Google Search Appliance which does a really astounding job of generating fairly insightful recommendations, even on one-word queries, in real time based on the actual contents. No matter how many (or few) documents there are in the index the GSA produces these clustered query recommendations in no more than about 4 seconds. Your mention of "Google's scale" is what prompted me to think again of how amazing this functionality is, since the GSA is but one box! Sometimes scale can be the innovative differentiator, even when the technology being scaled is a quarter-century old. I’ve always admired the Ask 3D interface and how it populates (and clutters) every inch of the screen with data fuzzily related to the query, no matter how vague it may be.

A couple of years ago I had the privilege of playing with the Grokker product by Groxis which introduces similar functionality but presents it in a graphical, manipulable fashion which provides a wonderful sense of relationship and scale of correlated data points to the end user.

Soon after Google introduced results clustering on their Google Search Appliance which does a really astounding job of generating fairly insightful recommendations, even on one-word queries, in real time based on the actual contents. No matter how many (or few) documents there are in the index the GSA produces these clustered query recommendations in no more than about 4 seconds. Your mention of “Google’s scale” is what prompted me to think again of how amazing this functionality is, since the GSA is but one box! Sometimes scale can be the innovative differentiator, even when the technology being scaled is a quarter-century old.

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