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Normalizing Citysearch

Monday, October 10th, 2005

DeWitt Clinton noticed that Citysearch ratings have inflated in the past few years, and decided to do something about it. His greasemonkey script normalizes the ratings to pick out the true top. Check out his before and after pics.

This approach should be the front line filter for all semantic web trust problems. […]

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Why is Microsoft Afraid of Google?

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

This is a really bad article. The article asserts two falsehoods: one, that Microsoft is afraid of Google; and two, that Microsoft will win by being a relentless tortoise and copying features.

Let’s talk about the “copying” theory first. Five years ago, Bill Gates shook up the industry by announcing a dual-pronged strategy — […]

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