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Re: Odd, God and my invention of Googling not that it was known as such in 1986-87

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On 8/5/17 3:08 AM, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
> Thank God for Odd!
> 
>> Compare and contrast with Arindam Banerjee who stated "I invented googling".
> 
> As part of my M.Tech thesis in Computer Science from IIT Delhi in 1986.
> Thesis Title: Information Systems based on Partial-Match Retrieval
> 
> Paper: "A New Method for Partial Match Retrievals" International Conference
> on Supercomputing, Santa Clara, 1987
> 
> Abstract:
> This paper presents and analyses a new method for a simple, direct and fast
> solution of the partial-match problem. An algorithm is developed to derive a
> pointer for every partial-match query; this pointer locates a block in the
> address directory which gives a sequence of relative addresses in the only
> relatively ordered database. Extra information in the query, making it a
> "tuning" one, will arrange such records in an ascending or descending order of
> desirability. Investigation is done about the size of the address directory,
> which depends upon the total number of allowable queries (a function of the
> cardinalities of the domains of every partial-match attribute), and also the
> average number of record addresses per query.
> 
> Cheers,
> Arindam Banerjee
> 

Two comments: Doug Englebart demonstrated partial match retrievals in 
1968 in the famous "Mother of all demos".
Second, Google's success was based on backlink ranking and the PageRank 
algorithm, not on partial match retrievals, which were already 
implemented on Yahoo, Hotbot, Lycos and other search engines at the time.

-- 
Odd Bodkin -- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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Odd, God and my invention of Googling not that it was known as such in 1986-87 Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2017-08-05 01:08 -0700
  Re: Odd, God and my invention of Googling not that it was known as such in 1986-87 Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-08-05 11:52 -0500
    Re: Odd, God and my invention of Googling not that it was known as such in 1986-87 Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2017-08-05 23:54 -0700
      Re: Odd, God and my invention of Googling not that it was known as such in 1986-87 Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-08-07 08:19 -0500
        Re: Odd, God and my invention of Googling not that it was known as such in 1986-87 Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2017-08-07 17:20 -0700
  Re: Odd, God and my invention of Googling not that it was known as such  in 1986-87 The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-08-05 10:59 -0700
    Re: Odd, God and my invention of Googling not that it was known as such   in 1986-87 The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-08-05 14:55 -0700
    Re: Odd, God and my invention of Googling not that it was known as such in 1986-87 D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2017-08-05 22:23 +0000

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