Historical role
What the organisation contributed
Google combined full-text and structural signals, especially link analysis and anchor text, to improve ranking in an uncontrolled hypertext corpus -. How Google Translate Actually Became Possible - Why Machines Struggle With Jokes, Names and Negation - The Hidden Human Labour Behind Machine Translation - What Happens When Three AI Systems Translate the Same Political Speech? Interactive ideas - Translation error explorer by error class. The Google effect without the usual panic headline.
Why it mattered
Makes large, changing and weakly organised networked corpora searchable without requiring users to know exact locations in advance. Reduces the labour and delay required to produce usable target-language representations.
Connected topics
Where this fits in ITEM
Evidence
Sources and further reading
- The First Android-Powered Phone,
Google · 2008