Random search beats algorithms

Posted in Science at 12:15 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Search engines spend huge amounts of money fine-tuning their search algorithms, but a report in the journal Complexus suggests that they might be wasting their time. Lörincz and colleagues argue that random results provide just as many positive hits on a given subject as even the sharpest algorithm available. You can read my interpretation of their findings in this article on search engines.