2/19/2005
Its funny, when I wrote my last entry I thought to myself "Ya know, this is an interesting idea, but what are the applications of this?". (I try to ask myself that question whenever I am looking at some new idea or technology.) A few days after I posted the entry Slashdot posted an article talking about how a group of researching are using Google to derive th meaning of words (and how they are related to each other).
That's pretty cool. If Google is always running around the internet collecting links and seeing how the links relate to each other, then finding the "Google Distance" between two links is probably a pretty good way of seeing how they are related. Kinda wish I had thought of that. ;)
While searching for that article I stumbled across another article that talks about how someone else saw an opportunity to fill his blog with content to help increase his Google ads click-through by using Google's news alert system. That's just too cool.
Also, I got a Gmail account today. It looks pretty interesting, but for the time being its going to be my "experimental" account. I've been learing about how gmail and Google Maps work recently, so this will be fun to play around with.
That's pretty cool. If Google is always running around the internet collecting links and seeing how the links relate to each other, then finding the "Google Distance" between two links is probably a pretty good way of seeing how they are related. Kinda wish I had thought of that. ;)
While searching for that article I stumbled across another article that talks about how someone else saw an opportunity to fill his blog with content to help increase his Google ads click-through by using Google's news alert system. That's just too cool.
Also, I got a Gmail account today. It looks pretty interesting, but for the time being its going to be my "experimental" account. I've been learing about how gmail and Google Maps work recently, so this will be fun to play around with.
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