tedster - 8:12 pm on Dec 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

Teoma has been rather willing to share information about their algorithm -- which uses insights from Jon Kleinberg's HITS algorithm to identify "web communites". Teoma also conquered quite a technical a challenge in finding a way to give rapid results, building those community clusters on the fly. I've often wondered if the scalability of that solution isn't a major reason why AJ/Teoma hasn't taken on Google in a big way.

Mike Grehan has a very informative interview with Paul Gardi, SVP Search at Ask Jeeves/Teoma online:
[e-marketing-news.co.uk...]

At the end of the interview there's a link to a free pdf with more information about HITS and linkage based algorithms.

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[edited by: tedster at 5:12 pm (utc) on Dec. 30, 2005]