who is brave enough to take on Google

Look at it this way. It was just 2 guys that did that. This site here as more than 2 smart people. Well put our heads together we can do it. Google aint that smart as we f@ck them over daily as a team so this is just on a wider scale. Its the BlackHatWorld Major project. Im in lol
 
cant believe you just said because people at BHW are some of the smartest people on the internet
Right.

Where can I get this book
Or
You said that the book isn't released yet, where did you get it?
Thanks.
You can find Dr. Grossman's first IR book on Amazon. It's only a few years old. The new one will be published sometime next year by Springer in the EU. I imagine the same will be true of its US distribution.

If there are folks on this forum with either a serious interest in or deep knowledge of probabilistic retrieval models, I strongly suggest that you look in the direction of biotech.
 
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Many have tried to outdo google. I think it's too much of a household name now to go against.
 
It's possible.

Just spend literally billions on a quantum computer that can perform the most accurate algorithm, since they work instantly, i'm sure your results will be alot more relevant, thus giving you an edge.

But then you have to convince the 250 million people a day who use google that 1 or 2 different sites in the top 10 is useful to them.

oh, then you have the fact people will break your algorithm (i.e. cheat their way to the top - BH style) like g00gle when it used to count keywords. so putting "money" on your site 1,000,000 times would give you the top spot if your competitor had 999,999 etc.

However, a self adapting, growing, updating algorithm that itself could judge the most useful way to link websites ... that would beat google. Shame computers won't be able to do that commercially for 40 years!

start working boys ;) (and girls!)
 
It is easy, specialize, specialize and specialize. Then grow. You can't come out to out google by beating them on every search metric. You gotta find your relevant spot and stick to it, ofcourse a couple of other stars must align right. Things like investment being there. how you scale up then how to expand beyond your core.
 
It's possible.

Just spend literally billions on a quantum computer that can perform the most accurate algorithm, since they work instantly, i'm sure your results will be alot more relevant, thus giving you an edge.

But then you have to convince the 250 million people a day who use google that 1 or 2 different sites in the top 10 is useful to them.

oh, then you have the fact people will break your algorithm (i.e. cheat their way to the top - BH style) like g00gle when it used to count keywords. so putting "money" on your site 1,000,000 times would give you the top spot if your competitor had 999,999 etc.

However, a self adapting, growing, updating algorithm that itself could judge the most useful way to link websites ... that would beat google. Shame computers won't be able to do that commercially for 40 years!

start working boys ;) (and girls!)
What you're describing is more Kurzweilian projection than it is imminent reality, but I think you know that. Also, Google has never given tf-idf more weight than adjacency matrices. As such, there was never a point in Google's history where having just one more instance of a word on your site than another site would have won you a higher position than them for that keyword. That said, Yahoo! certainly operated using a topic-based tf-idf model for years successfully.

If you've got the know how to build systems that are more effective than Google, you'll make a lot more money in biotech and bioinformatics than you will trying to compete with a company whose brand name is used as a verb for the free service that they offer. Seriously.
 
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CUIL tried, and that didn't go very far, must admit though that cuil's user interface kicked google's butt
 
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