Google wants to be more open about the way it does its business according Udi Manber, the man who holds the keys to Google’s box of secrets. He describes how Page Rank, the original skeleton on which Google has been built, is still used – albeit it in a highly-evolved state. “It is now a [...]

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Yahoo is joining the ranks of MSN and Google in trying to include page layout into its search algorithm. A new patent filed by Yahoo examines how to estimate page elements without rendering the web page the way a browser does, thus making indexing faster. The process creates object trees based on structural elements contained [...]

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