Google today, Google Tomorrow
Ping taught us something about Google. It is the top search engine today and many others are competing with it. This is due to the way Google works, the way it organizes the search results. The websites that people take references from the most will be the most popular website. Other search engines work differently. Their most popular websites will be those that are visited the most. However, just because it is visited mostly does not mean people make references to it. Google’s strategy is undeniably BRILLIANT!
Well that brings us to the presentation done by Jovis, Aileen and Lee Yan about Google! Their topic: Google today, Google Tomorrow…
They shared with us about Bing, Google, Wolfram Alpha and semantic web. From what they presented, I remember a few key points. Bing is a good search engine for images. For my assignments within this few weeks, I have been using Bing for images and I do think it is very good.. better than google and yahoo.
As for Wolfram Alpha, it is a computational knowledge engine. While seach engines give you search results, this engine computes answers. Its amazing! When I type in my birthdate, it gives me birth and death anniversaries of famous people, the time in 1990, the time difference from today and so on. It’s very interesting and useful, I feel. If you know how to make efficient use of it, you can make the best out of it. You should know when to use a knowledge engine as compared to a search engine.
As for Google, so far Ive learnt that there are Google reader, Google search and more… Everyone should have known Google search by now. Google readers searches for you favourite sites and blogs for new content. It updates itself very frequently so that you will not miss out on any news. It organizes for you the news content so that you can easily search and read news that have been stored. Now, Google reader is also on the mobile phone browser you can read your news on the go! =)
As for semantic webs, they search according to the meaning of the keywords, not just the keywords blindly.
Thats alot of stuff I learnt.. NCT is really making me knowledgeable. Especially Twitter, its an awesome thing. =) Nights people..
