Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World

Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by peter303 on Monday February 01, 2016 @08:18PM (#11017081)

I prefer using the Stanford term "symbolics systems" for a larger tent that includes AI, but excludes business and scientific computing. Google search would fall into this.

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by eru on Monday February 01, 2016 @09:56PM (#11017401)

Symbolics systems seems to only encompass parts of AI that deal with symbolic information. What about modern number heavy machine learning?

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by tempestn on Monday February 01, 2016 @07:09PM (#11016733)

Google search has moved _far_ beyond grep.

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by bbq on Monday February 01, 2016 @08:04PM (#11017024)

If you let me know how you use grep to search the internet as effectively as I do with Google, sure!

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by rokhayakebe on Monday February 01, 2016 @08:18PM (#11017080)

Effectively or Efficiently?

I can search the internet way better. Email me what you are looking for and 9 times out of 10 I will send you back something better than what Google will spit out. Furthermore you won't even have to sift through 10 links, or change your search, I will do all this and send you the result back.

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by CydeWeys on Monday February 01, 2016 @09:46PM (#11017364)

This is such an incomprehensible boast. Do I think that you might be able to deliver me handpicked results that are better than a Google search? Sure. Can you do it for me in 100ms or better, and at no cost?

What are you even proposing, human search agents? That's absurd.

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by falcolas on Monday February 01, 2016 @11:12PM (#11017599)

You say that like Google doesn't employ humans to help make their search results better.

They do. Most companies which build their primary product on some form of heuristics have "domain experts" who help filter the wheat from the chaff.

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by rokhayakebe on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @12:39AM (#11017800)

Do I think that you might be able to deliver me handpicked results that are better than a Google search? Sure.

Ok, so you agree partially.

Can you do it for me in 100ms or better

Not all searches require an immediate reply, so I'll just focus on those. Looking at the list of the most expensive keywords on Google, it is safe to say the vast majority consist of searches that do not necessitate a decision at the moment of the first try. Think Attorney, Insurance, Travel.

and at no cost?

Yes. It is free, and ad supported.

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by ikawe on Monday February 01, 2016 @09:15PM (#11017278)

I bet you'll use google to do it.

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by rokhayakebe on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @12:43AM (#11017806)

Taking the most expensive keywords as a source: Attorneys, Insurance, Travel, etc... I'll use SuperLawyers + Avvo + Yelp for Attorneys. I'll go directly to insurance websites and compare rates. I'll go to Kayak, CheapOAir, Hipmunk and the likes for travel.

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by robotresearcher on Monday February 01, 2016 @09:36PM (#11017334)

Using grep?

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Re:Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the ... by minwcnt5 on Monday February 01, 2016 @07:10PM (#11016744)

No. Obviously.

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