Links from today's class..

1. Here is a link about the Search King/Google lawsuit:

 http://www.pandia.com/sw-2003/21-searchking.html

2. Here is a link to an NYT article where Amit Singhal--google search fellow--admits that page rank is but just one of 240 odd pieces of information they combine in making their ranking

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/s07-cse494-mailarchive/msg00082.html

3. Here is interesting, but dated, information about the mechanics of Google dance  (when google would update its index, link matrix and page ranks)

http://dance.efactory.de/


4. Here is a link--back from late 2005--when Google first started tweaking its index for China--because China asked it so nicely that Google just couldn't refuse ;-)

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/f05-cse494-mailarchive/msg00106.html

(here is a more complete article from BBC  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4645596.stm )

Here is a general wikipedia article that also discusses current search engine status in China:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_mainland_China


cheers
Rao