Dive into the archives.
- Google Flu Trends
Lots of people are linking to it but Google’s Flu Trends is a pretty amazing site.
The things you can figure out when you have the incredible amount of data Google has access to can provide insights into things previously not possible. I really think the idea that the CDC was up to [...]
- Creating a Search Engine
Rich Skrenta knows a thing or two about search engines and crawlers. Here’s his easy two step process of building your own one.
Step 1 is to copy the internet onto your cluster. Step 2 is to analyze it..
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Search is like 7 hard problems wrapped into a stack. Distributed systems, html analytics, text analytics/semantics, anti-spam, [...]
