jeremy_goodrich - 9:55 pm on Jun 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Try reading through a bit of MS history / engineering / and their papers out of the Beijing University I mentioned (might have posted a link here, not sure).

Google in their research, continually reference probability, as the solution to deal with ambiguous or incomplete data. They have an incredible search engine, but at Stanford, even the current research on 'bettering PageRank' involves using a different approach.

I love their engine, however, when you read through their old papers, it's pretty clear what math school of thought they were following.

The stuff that MS has been doing for years, is only possible with fuzzy systems...applied to the web, and you get math in 3d instead of 2d.