söndag 25 september 2011

How the Yahoo! homepage predicts your clicks


In the summer of 2008, at an artificial intelligence confab deep in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! senior research scientist Deepak Agarwal revealed that the web giant was using automated algorithms to select news stories on its famous front page. This week, Raghu Ramakrishnan Yahoo! With this system, Deepak Agarwal said at the time, human editors still chose the pool of stories that were eligible for the Today module, but then automated algorithms decided which stories got placed where and for how long....[Read the full article]