And it doesn't take a couple of Google PhDs to build an algorithm that can tie all your online information together. After all, there was no eBay, Amazon or online banking available to the rank and file users.
Quora is a bit different from the other major players in the reference space, with its focus on cultivating an environment dominated by topic experts, such as doctors, economists, PhDs, and other industry insiders.
Based in Washington, D.C.the Sloof Lirpa Center for the Study of Long Tail Profitability has 459 employees, including 458 with PhDs and 1 normal guy. Dr. Lirpa received his PhD from Cornell University, where he studied with Gerard Salton, a pioneer...
You can’t automate genuine relevancy and curation and expect to beat a few hundred computer scientists with PhDs. I made that statement in April of 2003, almost 10 years ago. It was my closing statement in an interview with Ralph Wilson of Web...
Many of our engineers came from very high-profile security environments, such as banks, credit card companies, and high-volume retail organizations, and a large number of them hold PhDs and patents in security and software engineering.
A Challenge for the Google PhDs : Explain THIS! Find out here, with these links to some of the latest topics being discussed in our own Search Engine Watch Forums, and other search marketing forums across the Web:
Just as meteorologists try to predict the weather, several PhDs at Farecast are attempting to predict airline prices. Travel search engines, which allow you to book directly with suppliers, have the potential to completely disrupt the status-quo.
Didn't take a team of PhDs to make it happen, so I don't think we've got a big technological hurdle for Google or Overture to overcome. Gary just passed along a great news story he found, Story search reveals Google glitch, that illustrates why...
What, the 50+ PhDs Google already has on staff isn't enough? The Search Engine Update is a twice-monthly update of search engine news. It is available only to Search Engine Watch members. Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some...
It's PhDs who create these algorithms, so us regular folks have our work cut out for us. A special report from the Search Engine Strategies 2001 Conference, November 14-15, Dallas, TX. Danny Sullivan led a session called "Looking at Links" that...
