http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1 The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to rate pages based on the number and importance of links that pointed to them — to use the collective intelligence of the Web itself to determine which sites were most relevant. It was a simple and powerful concept, and — as Google quickly became the most successful search engine on the Web — Page and cofounder Sergey Brin credited PageRank as their company’s fundamental innovation. But that wasn’t the… ]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:56:00 -0700 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1 http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/ Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No less important, it is also almost certain to be the last one. Google's five-year head start and its relationships with libraries and publishers give it an effective monopoly: No competitor will be able to come after it on the same scale. Nor is technology going to lower the cost of entry. Scanning will always be an expensive, labor-intensive project. Of course, 50 or 100 years from now control of… ]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:24:00 -0700 http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/