Google Squared is Live

Re:Google Squared is Live by JimmyL on Thursday June 04, 2009 @01:36AM (#640998)

Google Sets (http://labs.google.com/sets) was one of the earlier things available in Google Labs, back when it was just a dumping ground for weird stuff (as opposed to one for non-mainstream features). I'd guess this is where the technology used to generate the square from the samples comes from.

I also wouldn't call it training, for what it's worth. I punched in the same query, and was asked (like you were) to provide some samples - shouldn't (ideally) it know that it's not known this before, and use the samples you suggested?

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Re:Google Squared is Live by vidarh on Thursday June 04, 2009 @05:42AM (#641159)

Would you trust a single input for immediate future use?

If so, Google Square has some Viagra to sell you...

In other words: A single user can never be trusted when they know nothing else about you - if they did, the spammers would be out in force as soon as it got any traction at all.

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Re:Google Squared is Live by wizard_2 on Thursday June 04, 2009 @09:28AM (#641322)

Yea but like for the "wiki search" they can trust you know what you want to see.

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Re:Google Squared is Live by khandekars on Thursday June 04, 2009 @06:04AM (#641176)

Aha, thanks for the recollection about Google Sets. Your guess looks plausible.

I agree with vidarh's point about spam potential, re: reusing previous samples.

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