10-21-2005, 11:12 PM
Quote:How a Mathematician from New Jersey wants to Overcome the World's biggest Search engine: A Trip into the World of Algorithms
Apostolos Gerasoulis is the inventor of America's forth largest Internet search engine, Ask Jeeves. Every day, ten million search phrases are entered here...
..The ranking algorithm is the most important part of a search engine. On average, users only click on two documents out of the thousands offered to them after a search request. A page appearing as the 52nd search result receives about the same attention as a flyer given out in a shopping mall..
full article: http://www.zeit.de/online/2005/41/suchma...n?page=all