Google, copyright and AI.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Just saw a show on Google Books that got into their project to scan every book in the world and the legal cases about copyright that is spawned. It was on Al Jazeera and should replay at midnight, EST tonight. This isn't something you can watch in the background as there are a lot of interviews in other languages with English subtitles.

One bit I found really interesting is someone recounting a discussion with the Google founders when asked, "why are you creating another search engine? Alta Vista seems to work just fine." The answer: "Oh, we aren't. We're building a AI."

A more recent Google quote is that "Google is a AI knowledge aid"

Another interesting quote was that "Google is a NGO that just happens to make money, who's business plan is to make the world a better place."

Interesting stuff!

-t

[tangent4ronpaul]

re-run is on now, if anyone wants to watch.

-t

[FindLiberty]

lol, I remember when www.av.com (http://www.av.com) was THE search engine!

BTW, it looks like they've moved the cheese (via the long way) over to Yahoo:


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\User... >ping av.com

Pinging av.com [74.6.50.24] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.6.50.24: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=48
Reply from 74.6.50.24: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=48
Reply from 74.6.50.24: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=48
Reply from 74.6.50.24: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=50
Ping statistics for 74.6.50.24:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 44ms, Average = 43ms

C:\User...
Tracing route to av.com [212.82.102.24]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms ...
2 29 ms 13 ms 27 ms ...
3 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms te-0-3-0-15-sur03.elmhurst.il.chicago.comcast.ne
t [68.86.116.213]
4 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms te-0-9-0-0-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [69
.139.185.185]
5 14 ms 15 ms 16 ms he-3-5-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net
[68.86.95.237]
6 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms 66.208.229.126
7 113 ms 113 ms 113 ms vl-3612-ve-236.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.15
8.238]
8 115 ms 115 ms 114 ms ae-6-6.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.148.14
5]
9 116 ms 114 ms 114 ms ae-46-46.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.202.5
3]
10 114 ms 113 ms 114 ms ae-44-44.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.137.61]
11 115 ms 117 ms 115 ms ae-46-46.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.143.13
7]
12 117 ms 114 ms 116 ms ae-71-71.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.6]
13 * * 114 ms ae-3-80.edge5.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.13
7]
14 148 ms 115 ms 115 ms YAHOO-INC.edge5.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [195.16.16
0.54]
15 126 ms 125 ms 126 ms UNKNOWN-66-196-65-X.yahoo.com [66.196.65.149]
16 128 ms 127 ms 126 ms te-7-2.bas-c1.ch1.yahoo.com [217.163.20.23]
17 126 ms 125 ms 126 ms w2.src1.vip.ch1.yahoo.com [212.82.102.24]

C:\User...
Tracing route to www.google.com (http://www.google.com) [74.125.225.51]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms ...
2 39 ms 18 ms 20 ms ...
3 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms te-0-3-0-15-sur03.elmhurst.il.chicago.comcast.ne
t [68.86.116.213]
4 12 ms 15 ms 16 ms te-0-9-0-9-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [69
.139.201.209]
5 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms he-3-10-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net
[68.86.93.181]
6 12 ms 13 ms 12 ms he-0-11-0-1-pe04.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net
[68.86.83.62]
7 14 ms 12 ms 44 ms as15169-2-c.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [66.
208.233.142]
8 12 ms 14 ms 13 ms 209.85.255.26
9 13 ms 14 ms 12 ms 209.85.250.28
10 14 ms 12 ms 28 ms ord08s06-in-f19.1e100.net [74.125.225.51]
Trace complete.

[CPUd]

All those search engines screwed themselves when they:
- decided to introduce paid placements
- cut deals with other companies to become part of their 'portal' site

I thought dmoz was going to be the thing, and manual-reviewed directories would be superior to search engines. But there were a lot of dmoz editors on the take. It used to be hard to get in Yahoo's directory, then they started charging $299 for a review.

google was smart to keep all that crap off their page, and when they did eventually run ads, they were separate form the real results.