Comments on: Microsoft Researchers Working On BrowseRank To Compete With Google PageRank http://pulse2.com/2008/07/25/microsoft-researchers-working-on-browserank-to-compete-with-google-pagerank/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:47:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Vikash Shah http://pulse2.com/2008/07/25/microsoft-researchers-working-on-browserank-to-compete-with-google-pagerank/comment-page-1/#comment-14352 Vikash Shah Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:35:09 +0000 http://pulse2.com/?p=4058#comment-14352 gfigg - Just checked our your website and I have to admit the idea sounds pretty novel. It seems there is going to be several ways to "complete" a search and each method has its ups and downs. There will probably be a paper that comes out from google that destroys browserank. I believe the group that is going to win is the website with the "community" (google is their one product). Google has created such a large community that its user are going to be loyal, and if there is a better website google will probably imitate or buy it. gfigg – Just checked our your website and I have to admit the idea sounds pretty novel. It seems there is going to be several ways to “complete” a search and each method has its ups and downs. There will probably be a paper that comes out from google that destroys browserank.

I believe the group that is going to win is the website with the “community” (google is their one product). Google has created such a large community that its user are going to be loyal, and if there is a better website google will probably imitate or buy it.

]]> By: gfigg http://pulse2.com/2008/07/25/microsoft-researchers-working-on-browserank-to-compete-with-google-pagerank/comment-page-1/#comment-14334 gfigg Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:57:17 +0000 http://pulse2.com/?p=4058#comment-14334 Very interesting, although this has been tried before. DirectHit had a search engine built entirely on clickstream data (Acquired by Ask.com in 2000). They got the data from ISPs in those days. The end-result is really not that much better than Page-Rank. We at Me.dium on the other hand (http://me.dium.com/search) are processing our user's clickstream data in real-time to create a different lens based on what's going on now. e.g. do a search for John Edwards on Google or Live, and you get johnedwards.com and wiki/johnedwards. Do the same search on Me.dium and you learn that today people care about his love child, pictures of his mistress, etc. The difference is real-time (what people are browsing now) vs. historical (what they browsed in the past). Social vs. Old School. Check it out and let us know your thoughts. http://me.dium.com/search. Very interesting, although this has been tried before. DirectHit had a search engine built entirely on clickstream data (Acquired by Ask.com in 2000). They got the data from ISPs in those days. The end-result is really not that much better than Page-Rank.

We at Me.dium on the other hand (http://me.dium.com/search) are processing our user’s clickstream data in real-time to create a different lens based on what’s going on now. e.g. do a search for John Edwards on Google or Live, and you get johnedwards.com and wiki/johnedwards. Do the same search on Me.dium and you learn that today people care about his love child, pictures of his mistress, etc.

The difference is real-time (what people are browsing now) vs. historical (what they browsed in the past). Social vs. Old School. Check it out and let us know your thoughts. http://me.dium.com/search.

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