Search Algorithm Quotes

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.

The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online.

Google is basically this idea that sites that link to other sites create a better way to search.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.

Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.

We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.

Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.

The model of Yood is 'taking search out of search.'

Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time - so in other words, you still get the - there still are honest to goodness results which are based on an algorithm which is based on how important or how many people link to that particular site, so there's that. At the very beginning, there were unobtrusive advertisements on the side that sort of showed up when you typed in certain phrases. Over time, the amount of real estate that those ads take up has increased.