while it will be ahile before i consider
weaning
myself from
google
, i will say that i learned a great deal from
sterling hughes’
excellent and balanced post on the
golden calf
:
“Google is a company, and an excellent company from
what I can see. Sometimes they have clairvoyant ideas, such as
using large clusters based on commodity hardware (which, btw, FAST
has always done as well). I believe, however, the geek community
has created Google as a Golden Calf, and no corporation can be good
religion.”
i had no idea that
alltheweb
and
google
have had nearly identical relevancy rankings for search results for
quiet some time. [ via webvoice ]