Fractal Nature of Text & Impact on Search Algos

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Well because the labs at Google, MSN, Yahoo! all have the cream of the crop working there, I would be puzzled to see them totally bypass a solution and fail to see it. The most important thing about it is that they don't seem to be too excited about it all.

for Personally, I feel its overkill. Nobody I know uses fractalstext analysis, and after talking to Orion I asked some people at conferences (it'll be worth asking at this year's SIGIR) about it, and they didn't appear excited either or just had no idea what I was going on about. They are world experts in their fields, and as far as IR is concerned and computational linguistics, there was no interest.

This doesn't mean there isn't room for it in research.

Dr Garcia comes a phd in fractals so its not suprising to see them applied to text as this is what he deals with in his business. Its nice to have fresh ideas like that that come from people outside of the field. It does happen that they can be applied quite well.

This time however, I don't see myself using any of those methods.