Comments on: Britannica: #1 at Google

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By: r4 ds karte

r4 ds karte — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:03:39 +0000

Thanx for the valuable information. This was just the thing I was looking for, Googleâ€™s policy is to link to items that do not contain the search phrase, or at least not until you pass the paywall. Books, newspaper articles, and so on. keep posting. Will be visiting back soon.

By: davidw

davidw — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:03:31 +0000

Branko, I applaud Google’s latent semantic indexing (or, as I prefer to remember it, “synthetic latex indexing,” and I’m undoubtedly misusing the term anyway) when it leads us to a page that is useful. The EB is un-useful in itself and (because it points behind a pay wall) and as a reference. I wonder what sort of algorithm led it to such a miserable result.

By: Branko Collin

Branko Collin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:02:02 +0000

It’s long been Google’s policy to link to items that do not contain the search phrase, or at least not until you pass the paywall. Books, newspaper articles, and so on.

They also seem to link to related pages even if these don’t have the search term on them. I remember searching once for something like ‘Teigetje’ (the Dutch name of Tigger) and ending up at an all English Pooh page.

Google seems to want to refer people to places where they can find things, regardless of whether people have access to these things.

By: Judson

Judson — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:31:04 +0000

I guess it is better than that weird EB page. I never know what I’m looking at on their site. A snippet from an “assorted reference”??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_hold (google jump start link) :)

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:48:07 +0000

@Judson – I’ve just made that redirect ;-)

By: Judson

Judson — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:40:49 +0000

This is the best wikipedia has on that topic now. I could make this a redirect from [[Horizontal hold]], but I don’t really think it’s good enough. :\

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_television_works#Synchronisation

By: Mirek Sopek

Mirek Sopek — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:49:02 +0000

I pay for EB, and I can tell that this query gives the same result for my (password protected) account as for the open one.

Well, the other problem of EB, is that, as far as I can asses, it is far behind Wikipedia when it comes to “deepth” of the entries, links to other resources, just everything important.

For example (as I’m in Paris now), when I type Charters – I get much better and detailed text in Wikipedia than in EB.

It’s pity (maybe), but that’s reality.