Isn't that a totally different animal?
Hi everybody,
I agree with Mel. This is something completely different. Data Mining, means you crunch a lot of data in order to unearth some structure, that was hidden. But this is not the instantaneous result, that someone using a search engine expects. It means some “query” does run a while or is run constantly against new pages coming into the data pool.
Am I totally wrong here?
However, this is still something useful and I would take such mining any day (for free from google ;-). I'm looking for some slow but methodical re-search service for quite a while. Things like Google NewsAlert are pointing into the right direction.
My biggest concern is, that it is vulnerable to abuse. If I want to enforce a trend, I start to post parts of the same data all over the place. If I try to undermine a trend I'm going to post falsified data or hypothetical data about a subject. The resources to post something are sooo cheap. This kind of mining machine will take fiction as well as news, so if I act as a humorist or fiction writer, it will mix it in with the news and extract the trends in the fictitious world. One can only hope that the people interpreting this are smart enough to catch on to this.
Just my five cents
K<o>
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