Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI

Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by Taek on Thursday September 29, 2016 @05:27AM (#12604126)

When John Green from Portland, Maine goes to Google and types in a search query for 'dirt on Mayor', I would imagine that Google is going to have an advantage over any algorithm, human or otherwise, that does not have access to things like the fact that it's John Green from Portland, does not have access to all the news coming out of Portland (at least not in the same, automated way that Google does), does not have access to Mr. Green's search history, and does not have data on the results millions of other searches related to 'dirt on mayor'.

If you're going to compete with Google as the one-stop-shop for searches, you're going to need to be able to provide search results that are consistently competitive. And I think Google has gotten good enough that you simply can't do that without access to some portion of their moutains of data. Nobody else has search history for every single American, and without that you are going to be crippled when {Random American} tries to search for something.

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Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by crististm on Thursday September 29, 2016 @08:57AM (#12604852)

I've switched to Duck Duck Go for more than a year and do >=95% of my searches with them.

I observed there is a set of results that can be found in all engines but each engine has a smaller set that are not found on the others. For this variety of results I occasionally use both Google and Bing.

This variation algorithm that I do, is one that yields better results then sticking with the brute force of either one.

It is these "getting out of the box" algorithms that out compete brute force algorithms on the same ground. That means, with guided context your search results improve drastically.

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Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by patkai on Thursday September 29, 2016 @06:36AM (#12604323)

"If you're going to compete with Google as the one-stop-shop for searches"

Agreed. An easy way to test the difficulty of this is to switch to Bing for a week. I actually tried!

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Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by sharemywin on Thursday September 29, 2016 @09:10AM (#12604921)

A harder things to get would be GPS data that google and apple collect one everyone.

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