Academic Search Engine Published
from the I-Still-Haven't-Found-What-I'm-Looking-For dept
Google determines relevance by links, and so does this search engine in Nature. However while Google only counts a link from site A to site B as a single vote for site B, the published algorithm somehow takes into account all of the links on site A to establish a "community" of links. I think Google could use some improvements, just search for "Russian Dancing" sometime. Why are my roommates the first hit?
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seems 'not new'
Maybe 'what's new' is that it's published in Nature, but most of the important ideas (on which this is based) were published years ago, as far as I can tell. (At least the article could mention some more of the prior work).
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More info
http://www.neci.nec.com/homepages/flake/
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