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by antics 13y ago
No profit model? Completely wrong. According to the IPO docs they make about $2/1000 views in America (which is good) and were projected to make $1 billion in revenue this year (also good). This article reports that their first quarter
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by antics 13y ago
:( Come on. This is, like, a completely reasonable request.
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by antics 13y ago
You should remember that there are actual people behind the words on your screen before you say something awful like this. This is not very nice. Another thing I'd point out is that there is a huge number of women who feel the same way
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by antics 13y ago
Then you truly weren't paying attention. At the top of comments section re: one of the articles explaining that the interview with pg left out an entire question, tptacek's apology was the top-voted comment. Insinuating yourself i
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by antics 13y ago
What do you think my answer is going to be here, lysa? Yes? If you have actual questions for me I'm happy to answer them. But what you've asked is not a question. You're just saying that to be mean. :(
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by antics 13y ago
Er, what? I didn't say anything about dysfunction and I didn't pat anyone on the back. I did say things about the inherent difficulties of competing in the space though.
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by antics 13y ago
Fun update, a Google executive just emailed me to say how much he liked this post. So there's that.
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by antics 13y ago
Hi, I'm the author. Sorry, but you're wrong. Understanding a good amount of detail about your users, and in particular, about their social context, is a massive win for search relevance. Google invested quite a bit in acquiring Aa
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by antics 13y ago
Hmmmmm. Well that is definitely worrying...
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by antics 13y ago
I didn't say anything that isn't completely public knowledge. And let's not forget that MS once employed Robert Scoble. So we can't be all bad. EDIT: and let's be realistic. The papers on search that come out of MSR
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by antics 13y ago
What attitude? You have no idea if I support IE tracking its users. I don't, btw, thanks for asking.
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by antics 13y ago
Huh, weird. It would be here, if Google had indexed it yet: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by antics 13y ago
The common "problem" that Bing and Google could both potentially be upset with RapGenius is the there is no accountability to the site owners. The search engine's job is to serve results that people want to see. In general, y
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by antics 13y ago
Is it down for you? It's up for me. It's static HTML hosted on GitHub Pages, so it should remain unbroken...
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by antics 13y ago
Hahaha, well, my bias is certainly not minimal! I work at Microsoft! But I see your point. In fairness I've tried to be honest about our weaknesses and not shy away from the things that are bad. I think I've been reasonably succes
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by antics 13y ago
Just a small note about sitesearch, Google are definitely not the market leader there. They don't seem to care much about this feature.
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by antics 13y ago
Which I say in the first sentence of paragraph 3.
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by antics 13y ago
Hmm, I didn't really say that I had the solution. If I did I'd start my own company. :) I said that I would outline the state of making search engines competitive. Here I basically focus the post around areas that are pain points
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by antics 13y ago
You don't know for sure what a user means by a query. You can make informed guesses. Typical tricks include looking at what users in the same area have searched for, looking at previous queries (turns out a lot of searches are repeated
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by antics 13y ago
Search relevance loosely refers to whether a query returns relevant results. There are different ways of measuring this, none of which is really bulletproof.
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What "viable search engine competition" really looks like(blog.nullspace.io)
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by antics 13y ago
Hey devcpp, let me see if I have your points right. * Windows actually sucks. * Reinventing the wheel is not worth talking about no matter what. * Bing sucks. * I should admit the shortcomings of MS. Regarding the last point, I'm kind
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by antics 13y ago
I'm responding to the fact that OP claims MS is not a good engineering firm. I don't think that point is arguable. We are not just good, we are among the very best in the world in terms of engineering achievements. Of course, whet
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by antics 13y ago
Personally? I think there's lots of room for innovating search. Probably not in that area, but in a lot of other areas. Consider, for example, that the majority of the world will has an Internet connection only via phone. Mobile search
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by antics 13y ago
The advantage of being a startup is precisely that your mission need not cohere with the investments of a large corporation. You can do what you like. From MS's perspective (again: I work here, but my opinions my own blah blah) the pro
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by antics 13y ago
Hi OP. Your points, as I understand them, are the following. Correct me if I'm wrong. * MS is not a good example of a strong engineering org. Further, it is not a good example because Windows sucks. * Google doesn't employ every s
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by antics 13y ago
The comments here about building search engines that viably compete with Google in terms of quality are hilariously wrong. Hilariously wrong. The dominating cost is not hiring smart people to work on the problem, it's hiring enough
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by antics 13y ago
The original comment says things like "anyone" can do this, and it's a "high school" level exploit. The discussion is about security vulnerabilities. Comments berating the people who worked on this because they didn
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by antics 13y ago
This comment makes you sound both arrogant and uninformed. You should rethink your tone. First off, security exploits are not measured in how hard they are to pull off, they're measured in overall impact. This is because the point of s
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by antics 13y ago
As I said before: Chad is way better at this than me! :)

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