Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Smart Search Engines

See if you can find something odd I noticed in the results?

http://www.google.com/search?q=empire+state+height

What do you think is odd? I want to see your queries :)

2 comments:

  1. oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are highlighting the answer. That's so smart. You know how they do that? One way is to calculate the mutual information between two terms, for example they see if these terms always co-occur, so it means that they have high mutual information.

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  2. This paper was published in SIGIR 2009, it explains how it can be done.
    "Learning to Rank for Quantity Consensus Queries"
    BTW, it seems that blogspot doesn't let you put link in your comment. That suxxx!!!!!!!!!!

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