On 1/4/06, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page themselves: > > http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html > "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" > > I've also seen a video presentation by someone at google explaining > how google page ranking works as well as stuff about their hardware > and serverfarms - but (typical!) I can't find it at the moment.
Yes, they have made some public descriptions of how google search works but the actual algorithm is a trade secret. > eg: I was surprised that my default google page is still ".co.uk" even > tho I'm on a new machine and back in Australia (ie: ".com.au"). It > followed me all around Europe like that. The connection (I think)? > Google reads my Gmail cookie, works out who I am and resets the > default Google locale cookie to my profile (ie: it automatically > changed my locale profile in London and hasn't changed it back for > Australia). Sure this particular case is a minor issue by itself but > it shows the interconnection between Google apps and the potential for > abuse...and ppl are worried about M$...! That's pretty much true. Your gmail account is actually a google account. Other functions that require loging for google will use the same login information. -- Now blogging.... http://www.blivit.org/blog/index.cfm http://www.blivit.org/mr_urc/index.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
