The solution

October 13th, 2009

My last post detailed the frustration I now feel when searching Google, using a search for “twitter client mac” as an example.
This post will explain the solution.  I don’t think it is too complicated and certainly it is simpler than the original PageRank algorithm itself.  Unfortunately, the solution involves people, which means it is messy.

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Google is the new AltaVista

October 6th, 2009

I was an early search engine buff.  I was right there using boolean searches on AltaVista to catch plagiarists in my wife’s classes.  And I started using Google in 1998.
Google was a miracle in those days.  To get anything relevant out of AltaVista you had to be a complete AltaVista kung-fu master.  You had to [...]