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Re: Facts about Google and Competition

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Post by nwh »

drakaal wrote: post #2

I 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…

Little cosmetic bug, doesn't seem to effect the results — http://i.imgur.com/ttof6iD.png

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Post by lclarkmichalek »

fogleman wrote: post #7
drakaal wrote: post #2

I 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.

Apparently you need "What is the speed of the ISS" to get an answer, though if you're looking for related links, you get http://issondemand.com/ as the first result, which is less... stellar than the result google provides

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

danso wrote: post #4

I 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 use…

One measure of "newness" is if the top 10 results are the same as other queries. After all, if two queries produce the same list of results, then aren't they the effectively the same query? I doubt that's what's being used here, though.

Re: Facts about Google and Competition

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Post by charleslmunger »

drakaal wrote: post #2

I 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…

Interestingly, I searched "android securerandom" on both, and Google has the first result as the javadoc and the second as a blog post explaining a serious vulnerability in it and how to mitigate it.

The same search on samuru has no results about the vulnerability.

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Post by JSZZHlmumeUE »

drakaal wrote: post #2

I 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 tried "temperature princeton tuesday" and didn't get a useful result on both your site and bing.

IMHO it's queries like that make google so much better than the rest.

Re: Facts about Google and Competition

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Post by yohui »

hrasyid wrote: post #19

this may be a stupid question, but what does the link have to do with "Google and Competition"?

The previous title was:

    Google: "15% of the searches we see everyday we've never seen before."
The linked page does come from Google's "Facts about Google and Competition", but the section "About Search" appears to be interesting for broader reasons.
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