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Ask HN: How many people know the "secret sauce" of the Google search algorithm?
A friend asked me this the other day and I have been unable to come up with a reasonable answer. It's curious that it hasn't come up on HN, at least recently, so feel free to enlighten me.
- pandakar 16y agolatent semantic analysis? Stat friend told me this...
- mgkimsal 16y agodare I say 42?
- alphaBeta1234 16y agoI'd guess that there isn't one single person at google who knows all of it. They do base a lot of their stuff on LSA (I think probably more generally just NLP), but they have so many filters and minor adjustments that the whole thing is like a really complex ball of string. I doubt there's one person who knows how the whole thing is exactly put together.