tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post3659152230646722856..comments2024-03-18T02:14:57.204-07:00Comments on Google Operating System: Google Is All About Large Amounts of DataAlex Chituhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-36895636006171278662007-12-18T08:31:00.000-08:002007-12-18T08:31:00.000-08:00The GOOG-411 service is AMAZING! I was out clubbin...The GOOG-411 service is AMAZING! I was out clubbing and on my way back home at 4:00 am my car brook down and I had to call a towing company. Guess what I used, GOOG-411! It gives you so many options to choose from. It is just great!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05828906140833172719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-69942076381177549452007-12-16T21:05:00.000-08:002007-12-16T21:05:00.000-08:00I heard of such things around 10 years ago, such a...I heard of such things around 10 years ago, such approach was used for voice recognition, OCR and other AI applications. The statistical analysis of large amount of data has been considered to be the most accurate, practical and effective approach of applying AI to commercial applications. Of course, from some academic point of view it is not elegant, and very much like "brute-force computation".<BR/><BR/>Google lifted applications and researches of such analysis to new frontier. More algorithms and models for statistical analysis are still emerging, and Google even provided interfaces for researchers around the world to access the data. Good works, Google.Zijian Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13275514659971793139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-15616149628979566582007-12-16T18:21:00.000-08:002007-12-16T18:21:00.000-08:00Hmmm, I think there may be more to this.Searching ...Hmmm, I think there may be more to this.<BR/><BR/>Searching the entire Internet used to be a challenge. Some might say that Google was the first to do a really good job of it. But now, Microsoft and Yahoo, and others are being competitive (not VERY competitive, but they are at least playing in the same league).<BR/><BR/>As more companies create vast self-healing server farms the number of companies in that club might grow. I think the enormous power of these vast armies of server are Google's strength. What would be called in other industries, a "barrier to entry".<BR/><BR/>The more stuff there is to search now, the bigger that barrier will get. Books, photos, blogs, documents, maps and so on. Google is basically saying "we can handle all of this stuff and more, and do it so cheaply that we pay for it with advertising (and make a profit to boot)".<BR/><BR/>Suppose that other big companies like Microsoft and Yahoo not only fail to catch Google in search or advertising, but also fail to make their ever growing server farms run at any sort of profit margin at all. <BR/><BR/>Who is left holding all the marbles?macbeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com