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Google could also provide free access to their algorithm for people to tweak and improve, as well as their raw index for others to provide better search on top
by rmbyrro 4y ago
Google could also provide free access to their algorithm for people to tweak and improve, as well as their raw index for others to provide better search on top of it.
But they like free distribution with other people's intelectual products, not theirs.
- honkdaddy 4y ago> "their algorithm" The Google web search infrastructure consists of dozens of different services hitting hundreds of different databases, most of which obviously contain PII. We're talking about layer upon layer of abstraction and refinement. Thinking that there's one 'algorithm' to be open-sourced which tackles one of the most sophisticated software problems we've ever concocted is a bit juvenile, IMO :)
- rmbyrro 4y agoThinking that external developers can't work on those layers if publicized is a bit juvenile, IMO. :) We have open source projects with layers upon layers of abstraction tackling problems equally if not more sophisticated than Google search. Developers involved in those problems are not juvenile, IMO :), and I bet some of them would like to work on Google's "sophisticated" layers. Next time you disagree with some idea, present your arguments in a mature way. Casting demeaning personal judgements like "juvenile" is not mature, IMO. :)