Comments on: 207. Edward Farhi explains at Google why physicists need LHC

By: 268. Video of the day: Sean Carroll at Google

268. Video of the day: Sean Carroll at Google — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:10:17 +0000

[...] not bad, I am glad to see that Googlers get more interest in science (so that the way PageRank treats science papers will be finally improved to the point where [...]

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:29:36 +0000

Interestingly, NEQNET is now on the first page of Google Search Results for “Horror moview brain removal”

Cheers,
Dmitry.

By: Lubos Motl

Lubos Motl — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:17:14 +0000

You may be right but it is questionable whether the kind of science ads that do exist elsewhere would be relevant for the more typical readers of your or my blog.

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:25:17 +0000

Isn’t Krishna your teacher as well?

Of course, Krishna is my teacher, it is just me who is terrible student

So, you are saying that they simply don’t have science related ads to serve? I seriously doubt it, look at banner ads here and there, there are lots of science related staff flashing, so science is on the market. I actually think that their algorithm to determine relevance is simply not good enough to work with scientific content.

More accurately, PR based on the number of incoming links is not good enough for science yet. Look how Google Search serves PDFs of articles – not many of them are actually even relevant (Google Scholar is better, but not terribly better).

Cheers,
Dmitry.

By: Lubos Motl

Lubos Motl — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:52:27 +0000

Isn’t Krishna your teacher as well? How do you care about your physics of mind in that case?

There should exist serious sources that try to get the attention of physics fans etc. For example, I would prefer a lot of advertisements from CERN or NASA. But that’s not how the world works.

This nonsense gets to the people, anyway, and I quickly decided that it would be foolish to censor it. It’s fun, after all.

Farhi is a very interesting guy.