On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Thiagarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But , when it comes to "image" search , my vote goes to google.
That is quite interesting. I find the wisdom of the crowds - flickr based image search - much better for most things. Where it doesn't work is for celebrities / models types searches. It definitely works much better. Here is an example: http://flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=jaguar&m=tags > Well, Shall i know, What OS and "Searching Software ? " they use ? > i think, > Google : GNU / Linux [ Debian ? ] > Yahoo! : FreeBSD Yahoo! uses FreeBSD on the front-end servers and mostly GNU/Linux (RHEL) for the backend. The backend is mostly infrastructure from Inktomi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi> and its a different beast altogether. Backend is relatively much larger than the front-end servers. The front-end servers are basically just a bunch of web servers load balanced using Akamai's DNS service. The backend has several different species of things co-existing and even competing :) The 'tests' that are done inside Yahoo! claim statistically no difference between Yahoo!'s results and Google's results for the top N most common search terms. But I think Yahoo! Search has to improve a lot for local queries (ex: "linux education in bangalore"). Here's something that you might find interesting: http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/ - imagine searching for "Linux CDs" and there being a nice result showing which ILUGC folks have what CDs and what's their phone number - all in the search result page! Cheers, -Suraj -- Home: http://sunson.in/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
