Google and Artificial Intelligence
November 4, 2010
Short honk: For those interested in how Google uses “artificial intelligence”, there’s a new patent that I found interesting: “Automatic Generation of Rewrite Rules for URLs” (US7827254), filed in December 2003, when Google was at the outset of its phenomenal run up to its peak in 2006-2007 in terms of technical productivity. You can download this document from www.uspto.gov. Make sure you work through the query syntax. The USPTO’s system is quite a delight to use. One of the inventors is Peter Norvig, yep, that Dr. Norvig. His book on artificial intelligence is one of the most thumbed in Math Clubs worldwide. The claims are interesting as well. Some are broad little devils. I thought, “Maybe Bit.ly” could be renamed “Bitten.ly”.
Stephen E Arnold, November 4, 2010
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