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· Naughties
· · 2003
· · · June
· · · · 24 (2 entries)
On Search: Intelligence · Here’s the problem: searching for words isn’t really what you want to do. You’d like to search for ideas, for concepts, for solutions, for answers. Instead, your typical search engine moronically sorts through its postings, and tries to solve your problems by looking at which words appear where, and how often, and so on. What we’d really like is an intelligent search engine. This essay is mostly about why we’re not likely to get one any time soon ...
$$$$! · Yesterday I wrote about signing up for Google’s AdSense program, and started actually displaying some ads on that essay last night some time after 9 PM. Below is Google’s admirably-clear report on my first day in the Internet Advertising business. It’s interesting and, you know, there might be some money in this ...
