Facts about Google and Competition
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Facts about Google and Competition
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#2I work at http://samuru.com we have about 70% unique searches. With out the hordes of default install users who type in the product slogan of every commercial, or try to get the Jeopardy questions before the clock runs out, we don't have a great cache hit ratio.
Combine this with the fact that Google is doing more and more to get Cache Collisions in their results (returning results that don't contain all the words in your search because it deemed word unimportant, or using synonyms) and it is hard to compete on speed.
That's why we don't. We compete on the idea we have better results.
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#3I work at http://samuru.com we have about 70% unique searches. With out the hordes of default install users who type in the product slogan of every commercial, or try to get the Jeopardy questions before the clock runs out, we don't have a great cache hit ratio. Combine this with the fact that Google is doing more and more to get Cache Collisions in their results (returning results that don't contain all the words in…
Good to see a google alternative. Also, I'm very curious: is this really written in PHP?
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#4I wonder how many of them are literally "new", as in, "What cures a hang over" versus "What cures a hangover", and how many of them are "new" by the time Google's computer breaks it into a normalized query? I guess to the engineers designing that process, it's all new data that their algorithm has to deal with. But it'd be interesting to see the vitality of the search for new concepts and knowledge among Google's users.
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#5How would they know this for sure if they are only supposed to be storing searches for 18 months?
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#6How would they know this for sure if they are only supposed to be storing searches for 18 months?
When we're talking about billions of queries per day, aggregate data is the only kind of data that is worth anything.
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#7I work at http://samuru.com we have about 70% unique searches. With out the hordes of default install users who type in the product slogan of every commercial, or try to get the Jeopardy questions before the clock runs out, we don't have a great cache hit ratio. Combine this with the fact that Google is doing more and more to get Cache Collisions in their results (returning results that don't contain all the words in…
I just tested Samuru vs. Google with the query:
speed of the iss
I think Google clearly won in this case.
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#8How would they know this for sure if they are only supposed to be storing searches for 18 months?
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#9How would they know this for sure if they are only supposed to be storing searches for 18 months?
A Bloom filter, for example, would permit them to know this without retaining any searches.
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#10I work at http://samuru.com we have about 70% unique searches. With out the hordes of default install users who type in the product slogan of every commercial, or try to get the Jeopardy questions before the clock runs out, we don't have a great cache hit ratio. Combine this with the fact that Google is doing more and more to get Cache Collisions in their results (returning results that don't contain all the words in…
I just tested Samuru vs. Google with the query: speed of the iss I think Google clearly won in this case.
> I just tested Samuru vs. Google with the query:
why is grass green?
Samuru clearly won in this case