Search engines can be more active entities than is commonly thought. First,
the crawler part could presumably be extended so that the engine searches for
information it somehow discovers is lacking (many requests for certain terms
that give low relevance ratios). Especially with the semantic web things turn
interesting here. Second, the internal representations of search terms, URLs
and their interrelations could very well be seen as a knowledge base of
sorts, which could be used to control actions of agents. Beside the usual
request for information about something, the system could have alerting
services for new interesting information or certain changes in the knowledge
base.
fredagen den 25 maj 2001 03:36 Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Google is the source of all knowledge.
> The Bayesian Probability Theorem is the source of all truth.
> It is disastrous to confuse the two.
Especially since one has a much shorter source code.
> Anyone want to found a cult of Google worshippers? Neither "google cult"
> nor "google worshippers" turns up anything, so there's clearly a niche.
I would definitely join it. Do we get to have odd titles too, like "Grand
Googler", "Cached Knight" and "Master of Relevance"? :-)
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