Algorithm

Google has updated its Blog Search algorithm after postponing the update earlier in the month. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable quotes Googler Jeremy Hylton who explains:

Digg is making updates to its promotional algorithm. The idea is to make the site more useful to more people. A select few have long had the most power over Digg's content.

VoIP company Skype experienced a massive outage due to a problem the company blamed on a deficient network software algorithm.

Ok, so the New York Times doesn’t exactly get Google’s top algorithm execs to tell us how the search engine calculates search results, but they do get fresh insight as to how Google decides to update it’s technology. The article includes interviews with Amit Singhal, Matt Cutts and Udi Manber. Insights include details of Google’s internal system for evaluating search queries, called Debug.

Jim Lanzone and company want to own the mindshare for the word 'algorithm' as their massive advertising campaign to promote that and Ask's brand continues.

Perhaps Google’s algorithm isn’t as difficult as we all think? No, I haven’t been sitting in front of the microwave for too long again. Before you rip me to pieces, give me a few seconds to explain myself! Possible Technology Limitations Now, we all know that Google has one of the largest server farms in the world, estimated upwards of 250,000 individual servers spread worldwide. In spite of this fact, many people lost sight of the fact that Google only has a finite (albeit large) amount or resources.

People will see a nine-figure advertising campaign emerge from IAC as they spend $100 million of Barry Diller's money to try and make Ask.com a search habit on the Internet

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