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How does Google figure out relevance in realtime? With twitter, it's user driver content with tags etc. But with the net at large, blogs etc, this becomes diff
by thisduck 17y ago
How does Google figure out relevance in realtime? With twitter, it's user driver content with tags etc.
But with the net at large, blogs etc, this becomes difficult. Incoming links etc are hard to determine in real time (primarily because they haven't occurred yet).
- aristus 17y agoThe site's PR, uptime/age, update rate, uniqueness of content. By this measure HN is near the ideal: it has amazing inbound PR but does not link out much. It's been running fast and fine for ~3 years, the content is often unique, in the sense that it contains phrases Googlebot has never encountered before. An experiment: here is a search that matches an exact phrase in this comment. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22By+this+measure+HN+is+near+the+ideal%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22By+this+measure+HN+is+near... At the moment it returns nothing. within a minute or two this comment till be the first result.
- foulmouthboy 17y ago52 minutes and counting. ;)
- aristus 17y agoYep. Fail. Stuff from yesterday is indexed however: http://www.google.com/search?q=confusingly+called+copy-region-as-kill http://www.google.com/search?q=confusingly+called+copy-regio...
- ntoshev 17y ago12 hours later, still no match.
- ntoshev 17y agoIt has appeared in the index after somewhere between 12 and 17 hours.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoThe quotes seem to be the problem, works without for me.