Comments on: Microsoft BrowseRank to take on Google PageRank http://news.techwhack.com/8088-microsoft-browserank News from the Tech and IT World Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:03:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: World Travel Guide http://news.techwhack.com/8088-microsoft-browserank#comment-406553 World Travel Guide Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:00:03 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/?p=8088#comment-406553 I like the Idea of BrowseRank over PageRank. PageRank is complicated and Google uses it in any manner company wants. I always believed Google method of ranking is stupid and unfair I like the Idea of BrowseRank over
PageRank. PageRank is complicated
and Google uses it in any manner
company wants. I always believed
Google method of ranking is stupid
and unfair

]]> By: Ginevra Figg http://news.techwhack.com/8088-microsoft-browserank#comment-406516 Ginevra Figg Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:52:31 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/?p=8088#comment-406516 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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