Pagerank isn't for humans
We’re setting between the transition from a web of links and a sequence of words to a web of content, meaning and knowledge. I believe this trend is the next moving that your generation is going to present. A few weeks ago I was discussing with a friend how can we bring knowledge to the web, how can we use the web to make a really efficient human driven search engine. Once again up, on the time, few former Googlers made some noise about a totally new search engine named Cuil (raised $33MM in private equity). I spent a few hours with Cuil, it really disappointed me. It works almost like google, you must be pretty much binary to retrieve some useful information, nothing has changed since late 90’s on this area.
Every single research on NL field has those kind of question sticked with their mind, “how can we improve search and content relational algorithms?”. I believe we can rely on common concepts we’ve being using since the beginning of the times. Trustiness, influence, authority when applied to the web can boost the research field into totally new direction.
My propose is that page content can be delivered and explored against the link/words algorithms with no explicit meaning and a simple assumption “yes … we know you’re a good reference because you have a lot of links”.
I propose yourself a question, how do you ask a direction when you got lost? You may ask a computer(google in this case): “Sunday night guitar red cap TV?” When you place this same question to a person in a totally different way, You should ask your close friend who share interests with you, what has the Sunday night TV show where a girl with a funny red cap was playing a guitar. Things does change when you bring meaning to it, that’s what computers should archive.
Indeed, Google is still leading this race with several fields under extreme research. Articles about Data Mining, Collective Intelligence and AI being published denotes this future trend coming from Mountain View.
Maybe things are about to change.
