Comments on: What Does Google Do? http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/05/what-does-google-do/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:55:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/05/what-does-google-do/comment-page-1/#comment-85760 Tim Boucher Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:53:13 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/05/what-does-google-do/#comment-85760 Holy shit, that's a great product pitch! I like it. Holy shit, that’s a great product pitch! I like it.

]]> By: Terry http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/05/what-does-google-do/comment-page-1/#comment-85757 Terry Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:18:58 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/05/what-does-google-do/#comment-85757 The word index, as applied to a search engine's crawl of the web and and the resulting organization of its results, is an apt one. Think of the index in the back of a book. Search engines perform the exact same function. On page so and so, you will find such and such a concept. Similarly, at URL so and so you will find a good result for the query you have just performed (most often an exact result). The difference is that Google is more efficient and than a traditional index in a book could every hope to be. This is why I've started entering the books I have at home in "My Google Library." It's a new feature of the Google book search, and it lets you search your entire collection over a specified query. A lot of the things I remember reading in my books at home aren't included in the book index. Type in a query ... and bang! Book, page number and highlight. Beats stacks of books at my side here next to my desk; or running over to the bookcase and flipping through something to no avail. We can now flip through 5, 10, 20 or 30 books at a time. I believe this will revolutionize research. It already has for me. The word index, as applied to a search engine’s crawl of the web and and the resulting organization of its results, is an apt one. Think of the index in the back of a book. Search engines perform the exact same function. On page so and so, you will find such and such a concept. Similarly, at URL so and so you will find a good result for the query you have just performed (most often an exact result).

The difference is that Google is more efficient and than a traditional index in a book could every hope to be. This is why I’ve started entering the books I have at home in “My Google Library.” It’s a new feature of the Google book search, and it lets you search your entire collection over a specified query. A lot of the things I remember reading in my books at home aren’t included in the book index. Type in a query … and bang! Book, page number and highlight. Beats stacks of books at my side here next to my desk; or running over to the bookcase and flipping through something to no avail. We can now flip through 5, 10, 20 or 30 books at a time. I believe this will revolutionize research. It already has for me.

]]> By: Why Should I Go To Web Pages? - Pop Occulture http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/05/what-does-google-do/comment-page-1/#comment-85721 Why Should I Go To Web Pages? - Pop Occulture Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:34:12 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/05/what-does-google-do/#comment-85721 [...] Following up from my last mini-rant, it occurs to me: why should someone looking for information on a subject ever need to go to a web page to find that information? [...] [...] Following up from my last mini-rant, it occurs to me: why should someone looking for information on a subject ever need to go to a web page to find that information? [...]

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