Expectations
Monday, 27. March 2006, 13:57:01
I was about to help today a younger friend who is at high school and needs to do a little research about operating systems. So we went directly to Google and typed in "Operating Systems". Guess what we got? I was amazed when I saw the first result: www.linux.org.
Not too far behind I got Debian, solaris, FreeBSD and it was then when Windows arrived, just before gnu.org and Apple MacOS X.
There is nothing being implied here, I am just amazed at the results and the order in which they are presented. On the contrary, when I tried in Yahoo! I got very different results. Most were links to definitions and not to particular instances of the concept.
So what do you think is a better result? What would you expect of such a query? I think Yahoo gets the credit this time, instead of PageRank, but hey, that's just my opinion.
Not too far behind I got Debian, solaris, FreeBSD and it was then when Windows arrived, just before gnu.org and Apple MacOS X.
There is nothing being implied here, I am just amazed at the results and the order in which they are presented. On the contrary, when I tried in Yahoo! I got very different results. Most were links to definitions and not to particular instances of the concept.
So what do you think is a better result? What would you expect of such a query? I think Yahoo gets the credit this time, instead of PageRank, but hey, that's just my opinion.
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