Having introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking in a previous post, Amit Singhal continues his explanation of how Google ranking works by giving an overview of the technologies behind their ranking system. Here are the points he stressed in his explanation:
- Understanding pages
- Understanding queries
- Understanding users
Via George Siemens.
A presentation by Stephen Downes about the future of online learning. Slides are available here.
I do agree with Stephen in many points he raised and especially that the learner has to be put at the center and that Personal Learning Environments will replace Learning Management Systems.
McCain: “Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information.”
A post by Amit Singhal introducing the core ranking team at Google. According to Amit, the philosophies behind Google ranking include:
1) Best locally relevant results served globally.
2) Keep it simple.
3) No manual intervention.
Via Doug Cornelius.
A video of an interview by Patrick Lambe of Larry Prusack and Dave Snowden on whether KM is dying/dead.
