rick the ponderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Regarding cempeting to buy information - I'm not suggesting that at >all, people would be competing to sell the services of their classifier >(and shopping around for the best classifier to consume or build on). >It would be like the web services model - like for example at strikeiron.com
My point is that for most information, free is too expensive. Then how is your model funded? You have to collect money from the information providers and increase its value up to at least zero by filtering out all but the most useful, like for example, Google. The missing technology is distributed indexing. This has a number of problems. First, it is very expensive to compete with Google. Its servers make up about 0.1% of the world's computing power. Second, competing web services would be inefficient because of the duplication of network traffic (spiders) and index storage. A centralized model favors a monopoly. Third, Google it is very limited. After a web page update, Google may take days to find it and update its index. Distributed indexing would solve these problems. Nobody would control the index. Everyone would have an incentive to contribute computing power (storage and bandwidth) and high quality information in exchange for the ability to send messages. There would be no distinction between queries and updates. You just send a message and it is routed to anyone who cares. Imagine if a Google query could initiate a conversation in real time. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
