Search, That Was Mighty Sociable

There's an anecdote I tell at conferences when I'm speaking on linkage and connectivity data. It's the story of how foremost computer scientist Jon Kleinberg discovered the flaw in search engines trying to rank Web pages based purely on the text on the page. Back in 1997, when Alta Vista was the search engine, he did a search for "search engine." He was totally surprised to learn that "alta vista" didn't appear... [read full story]