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A MATHEMATICAL technique for studying disorder in quantum systems could improve internet keyword searches. It is able to spot significant patterns in large data sets such as web pages and text documents, and may even be adaptable to genome analysis
Quantum mathematics could improve web searches
Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 1:41 PM EDT
Article Source: The New Scientist- Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.
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Often great discoveries are made when techniques from one discipline are tried in another.
I'm not sure about "often," but it certainly can help disciplines break from established paradigms.
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#1 - Sun Apr 5, 2009 1:44 PM EDTIt's sort of unrelated but I've never quite understood why search engines are up to synonyms yet.
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#2 - Tue Apr 7, 2009 12:14 AM EDTAt present, each synonym associated with the keyword used to parse an index would double the computational cost of the search. I imagine the concept of synonyms in search queries is an aspect of semantic-web studies, though I'm not familiar enough with the details to have an idea what approaches are being explored to implement this kind of functionality in an algorithm that's computationally viable.
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