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From the article's conclusion: "How much value Microsoft’s engineers are ultimately adding is hard to say. Both they and Google are extremely circumspect about
by JoelSutherland 16y ago
From the article's conclusion: "How much value Microsoft’s engineers are ultimately adding is hard to say. Both they and Google are extremely circumspect about revealing any detail about their algorithms."
It's common sense that they are using data from Google. That has pretty much been proven conclusively. Nate Silver telling us this again is not interesting. The possibility that he might try was.
- noibl 16y agoSo you paraphrase 'hard' as 'impossible'. I actually think Silver makes a useful contribution, mainly because of his background and gift for illustrating data perception problems. If you're looking for hard facts and (more) smoking guns then you would naturally be disappointed.
- recoiledsnake 16y agoOf course search engines don't like to reveal algorithms and weighting details, it would be a gold mine for rival and the SEO riggers. Why should Bing release such critical information to Google for 8/100 search queries?