Title | : | Is Google the Next Stage of Evolution of Life on Earth? |
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Author | : | Michael Cook |
Release | : | 2009-11-09 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Science & Nature Essays, Books, Science & Nature, Nonfiction |
Size | : | 132452 |
In this brief and incisive essay, a financial asset manager presents his thesis for “the thumbnail sketch of the evolution of life on earth: DNA, language, writing, printing, computers, the Internet, Google’s search algorithm.” Cook assigns to Google’s Page Rank algorithm “the genius of the solution”-- the way it “neatly sidesteps” a very difficult semantic problem. |