Ever wondered how Google comes up with their search results? Here’s a great documentary from CBC’s Sunday Edition explaining that mysterious process and much more. Well worth a listen for any blogger who wants their posts to show up in the most popular search engine.
My favourite radio program is “The Sunday Edition”on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Last weekend they broadcast a really great documentary about how Google dominates web search. From the show description:
“If search rules the web, then Google rules search. And that fact has given the company an enormous amount of economic clout. It has made the Google algorithm, the top-secret computer program that runs the search engine, the most important piece of intellectual property in the world. With so much at stake, it’s no wonder that the clamour for more public scrutiny and even regulatory control is getting louder every day.“
The documentary is called “Engineering Search: The Story of the Algorithm that Changed the World” it’s about 25 minutes of great radio, and it’s available online here (it’s in the “second hour” of the show).
