Sep 24 2002
google love
Google rocks.
The latest: http://news.google.com
“Search and browse 4,000 continuously updated news sources.”
Not only does it appear to be a clean layout (typical of Google) with good news stories from several topic areas, the coolest thing is that the pages are auto-generated without any human editors, as the amusing footer explains:
“This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors.
No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page.”
Read more: http://news.google.com/help/about_news_search.html
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Yes, I dig Google. I use the search engine almost exclusively for my internet searching, and I have the great fortune to be able to maintain/play with a Google Search Appliance at work. The appliance is typical of Google in that the admin interface pages are very clean and intuitive; the search results can be displayed in various ways by mucking about with an XSLT file (my current method of choice, there are other ways); it incorporates the PageRanking algorithms but also use additional analysis to determine relevance (since on an intranet, where there’s not a lot of cross-linking between various internal sites, the PageRanking system wouldn’t be terribly effective by itself). I’ve been very happy with their tech support thus far, and the addition of a user’s forum to their Appliance support website has been extremely useful.
Plus, they sent a free t-shirt with our trial appliance. 
*sigh* I’m envious of the folks who work there. All sortsa extremely cool projects going on, and all that I’ve seen have been *very* well executed.
Go, Google!
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