Thursday, May 12, 2005

Neural Networks-- the Next Search Engines?

The concept has been posited by Chris Sherman at Search Engine Watch, in his article, If Search Engines Could Read Your Mind, http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3503931
Not that the concept is that off when you think about it. I recently helped one of my college professors with editing and revising his proposed dissertation which was on the topic of neural networks. When computer networks are put to a task, such as search-- literally parsing words, symbols and phrases-- they eventually learn certain things. Sherman's article is worth the read.