> Everything you ever wanted to know about the how of Google
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> http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/38331.pdf
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> Joanna
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Thanks.
Comments. I use Google as a spell checker, since my text processor (Emacs) doesn't have such an animal.
I have become deeply suspicious of google over the years because the first few offerings in a search are nearly always heavy commercial links, so I go down a few and then click. Another technique is to start with some obvious word or two, and if that doesn't work, I click on something to some other words that might get closer like a specific name. Getting the right video is particularly difficult because I am often looking for posted panels, lectures, and other material from the left. And these often have a thousand or less views.
I figured they used sophisticated stats, but I had no idea they depend so heavily on linear algebra. Subspaces, nodes, wow.
The face recognition engine is scary. In fact thinking back on the whole presentation all of it has applications for the national surveillance state. Surveillance is one of those words I can almost never spell without looking.
CG