[Linux-Anyway] Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fitto Print

From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux-Anyway <Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:14:52 -0700 (PDT)

Finally: Comprehensive & extensive news.

NYTimes.com

All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fit to Print
September 24, 2002
By SAUL HANSELL

Google, the rapidly growing online search engine, introduced a
service yesterday that uses its search algorithms - but no human
editors - to create a news page that looks not much different
from those of many news Web sites.

"We are trying to leverage the experience of all the editors out
there," said Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president for
products. The site brings together headlines, and makes its
automated news judgments, from information appearing on 4,000
sites.

For now, Google's service has no advertising or other revenue
source. But Mr. Page said the service, which is still considered
a beta - or trial - offering, will easily accommodate the text
advertising that Google sells on other areas of its site. The
company is also exploring syndicating the news service to other
sites and possibly offering a version of it for a fee to its
users.

Google's news service is bound to become another issue in its
stormy relationship with the portals, especially Yahoo, that use
its search service. Google has said repeatedly that it does not
want to be a full-service portal, and it does not offer many
features, like e-mail and personal home pages, that portals do.
But it has expanded its offerings in shopping and some other
areas that are important to portals.

And industry executives say Google's relations with Yahoo are
quite strained; Yahoo owns Google stock and was responsible for
much of its early growth. Indeed, last July, Yahoo agreed to only
a short-term extension of its Google contract, which is now set
to expire at the end of this month. Yahoo is said to be seriously
considering switching its Web search to Inktomi, a Google rival
that does not run its own Web site.

Indeed, Yahoo recently removed the Google logo from its pages
that include Google's search results and replaced them with a box
of tiny text reading "search technology provided by Google."

Mr. Page declined to comment on the company's relations with
Yahoo. But he said that Yahoo did cooperate with the creation of
Google's news service, which includes articles on Yahoo's news
channel. He also said that Google hoped that Yahoo would consider
offering services based on Google's news search technology.

Mr. Page said the origin of the service was a demonstration
program written in January by a Google engineers that could
identify similar articles on many Web pages. Yesterday, for
example, Google's site used this technology to offer users a
choice of 1,897 articles on the siege of Yasir Arafat's compound.

There were some bugs yesterday, like links to three-day-old
articles on the woman accused of beating her child outside a
department store. But in general, Google's automated editors
appeared to match the work of human competitors.

"Their front page is not too far off from what is on the Post
site at the moment," said Douglas B. Feaver, the executive editor
of washingtonpost.com. "It's a useful service, but it's not going
to drive me to the unemployment office tomorrow."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/technology/24GOOG.html?ex=1033875150&ei=1&en=4fa57b19135a5d08

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that he could hardly speak. He asked his Monsignor how he could
relax. The Monsignor replied that it might help relax him to add
just a bit of vodka to the water pitcher. The next Sunday, after
following the Monsignor's advice, the priest returned to the
rectory to find a note from that worthy.
1. Next time sip rather than gulp.
2. There are ten commandments, not 12.
3. There are 12 disciples, not 10.
4. We do not refer to the cross as the "Big T".
5. The recommended grace before meals is not,
"Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub, Yaaaay, God!"
6. Do not refer to our Saviour, Jesus Christ, and his
Apostles as "J.C. and the Boys".
7. David slew Goliath, he did not kick the shit out of him.
8. The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost are never referred
to as, "Big Daddy, Junior, and the Spook".
9. It is always the Virgin Mary, never The Mary with the Cherry.
10. Last, but not least, next Wednesday there will be a
Taffy-Pulling Contest at St.Peter's, not a Peter-Pulling
Contest at St. Taffy's.

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