acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

ACM Opinion

How Google and Microsoft Taught Search to 'understand' the Web


View as: Print Mobile App Share:
Search kings

Credit: Aurich Lawson

Despite the massive amounts of computing power dedicated by search engine companies to crawling and indexing trillions of documents on the Internet, search engines still can't do what nearly any human can: tell the difference between a star, a 1970s TV show, and a Turkish alternative rock band. That’s because Web indexing has been based on the bare words found on Webpages, not on what they mean.

From Arstechnica
View Full Article

 


 

No entries found

Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account