Posted by Amit Singhal, Google Fellow (Cross-posted from the Google European Public Policy Blog ) Yesterday's news that the European Commission has opened a preliminary inquiry into competition complaints from three companies has generated a lot of questions about how Google's ranking works. Here, Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow responsible for ranking, who has worked in search for almost 20 years, explains the principles behind our algorithm. I’ve been reading about whether regulators should look into dictating how search engines like Google conduct their ranking. While the debate unfolds about government-regulated search, let me provide some general thinking behind our approach to ranking. Future ranking experts (inside or outside government) might find it helpful. Our philosophy has three main elements:our initial results are: AltaVista, Dogpile Web Search, Bing and Ask.com. I guess I'd better get back to work.
ha ha, that's funny that google show's up 6th in the search engine search, when searching on google!! Keep up the great work anyhow guys! It's been fun to watch from afaaaar!
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that the GOOGLE search website is not listed on the G-MAIL website?
ReplyDeleteThe query "search engine" can be interpreted in several ways including a request for: a list of popular search engines, the history of search engines, or descriptions of how search engines work.
ReplyDeleteYou can run searches for [car], or for [computer] which are also incomplete, ambiguous queries and also get GIGO results.
Regardless of the strength of page ranking algorithms, including Google's, search keywords need to express a coherent request for information.
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Citing the 'look we don't appear number 1 for search engine' just proves the theory that you manipulate the results, after all, we know that Google is the number 1 search engine, so does the rest of the world (except china), so, why doesn't Google appear at number 1? So that you can claim that you don't manipulate results...simples
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