Tag: ALGORITHM

Last week, to make inroads against the deluge of page-scraping content farms, Google carried out some changes to the way it ranks search results. The slow-but-sure subsuming of search results by content farms begun last year, but only really came to a head in January with a post by Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood. An outcry from the community followed, and culminated in a post by Matt ...

Using a handy algorithm that splits a calculation into thousands of little intermediary processes, a researcher at Yahoo has used a cluster of 1,000 computers to calculate the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi. Not all two quadrillion digits -- just that one digit (which is a binary 0, if you're wondering). The calculation was made possible by Hadoop, an open source implementation of Google's ...

You've probably gathered by now that the Facebook f8 conference is under away. Juicy details of Facebook's underpinnings are coming thick and fast -- and we're going to try and cover all of them -- but first: EdgeRank, the algorithm that generates your News Feed. In much the same way as Google returns relevant results, EdgeRank uses what it knows about you to produce hopefully-relevant news. ...

Over at Wired, there's a fantastic, exclusive feature on The Google Algorithm. It's quite easy to take for granted just how awesome the Google engine is. We know it works, but we don't know how it works... except a few mythical bigwigs at Google, anyway. Now, I'm not about to tell you that the Wired article reveals Google's best-kept industry secrets, but it does illuminate. And sometimes a ...

Fabrice Bellard, touting an algorithm 20 times more efficient any any other, has just calculated pi nearly 2.7 trillion digits. In doing so he beats the existing record of 2.6 trillion set in August 2009. But this isn't just a victory in the number-of-digits sense! No, this is a victory for the humble desktop PC... and for Linux, because of course, every home brew wannabe supercomputer runs ...

MyPunchbowl, the online party planning application, uses an algorithm to pick the best date for an event based on the actual responses of people that RSVP to the invitation. The "Pick a Date" feature recommends the best date from a set of dates that are supplied by the hosting party, in real time. As responses are received, the algorithm then recalculates the best possible date based on ...

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Google has released a new Labs experiment called Google Accessible Search. Billed as a tool that prioritizes the typical Google search results by their usability, Accessible Search sorts results based on the simplicity of their page layouts and how gracefully the page degrades (such has removing ads and turning off images). This tool isn't just for those who are tired of blinking Flash ads, or ...