Saturday, February 27, 2010

Google develops prototype mirror for solar energy

Google has developed a prototype for a new mirror technology that could cut by half the cost of building a solar thermal plant, the company's green energy czar said on Friday. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10460913-54.html

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Social Search - Architecture of Vark and Ranking Algorithm

Very good read relevant to the ask community project – a paper (Architectural) out of vark - http://vark.com/aardvarkFinalWWW2010.pdf

Has details on social crawling, indexing people, analyzing questions, and ranking. Also included is ideas on their UI and some examples.

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