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The "indexing the web" aspect is more of a systems engineering problem than a core algorithm problem. Scaling and systems work usually appeals to a completely d
by starkfist 16y ago
The "indexing the web" aspect is more of a systems engineering problem than a core algorithm problem. Scaling and systems work usually appeals to a completely different sort of engineer than those who develop algorithms.
I would argue that developing the original work for displaying relevant adsense ads would appeal more to the algorithm developer than scaling out search would.
Edit, I re-read your post and you seem to realize this so I don't understand where you were going with your comment in the original article.
- jacquesm 16y agoThe adsense example was made to point out that in order to make search a profitable business a lot of stuff needed to be built that has nothing to do with the 'search' product per se, it is the life support machine that allows 'search' to exist. I could have probably picked a better example because, as has already been pointed out there are lots of interesting sub-problems in keyword based advertising. Maybe I should have used an online advertising agency as the example, with the ad-matcher as the example of an algorithmically interesting item and the reporting, the statistics and the help desk as the infra structure.