Quotes about Searching

Only the curious have something to find.

In the end, we will see:  The path we travel is the treasure we seek. 

"You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

Google started in 1998, at a time when Yahoo! Seemed to have a stranglehold on the search business – and if Yahoo! Stumbled, then AltaVista or Lycos looked certain to be the last man standing.  But within a couple of years, Google had become the default search engine for anyone who used the internet regularly, simply because it was able to do a better job of finding the right page quickly.  And the way it does that – and does it while surveying three billion Web pages – is built on the wisdom of crowds.

            Google keeps the details of it’s technology to itself, but the core of the Google system is the PageRank algorithm, which was first defined by the company’s founders, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, in a now-legendary 1998 paper called “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine.”  PageRank is an algorithm – a calculating method – that attempts to let all the Web pages on the Internet decide which pages are most relevant to a particular search.  Here’s how Google puts it:

PageRank capitalizes on the uniquely democratic characteristic of the web by using it’s vast link structure as an organizational tool.  In essence, Google interprets a link from  page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B.  Google assesses a page’s importance by the votes it receives.  But Google looks at more than sheer volume of votes, or links; it also analyses the page that casts the vote.  Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”

In that 0.12 seconds, what Google is doing is asking the entire Web to decide which page contains the most useful information, and the page that gets the most votes goes first on the list.  And that page, or the one immediately beneath it, more often than not is in fact the one with the most useful information.

            Now, Google is a republic, not a perfect democracy.  As the description says, the more people that have linked to a page, the more influence that page has on the final decision.  The final vote is a “weighted average” – just as stock price or an NFL point spread is – rather than a simple average like the ox-weighers’ estimate.  Nonetheless, the big sites that have the more influence over the crowd’s final verdict have that influence only because of all the votes that smaller sites have given them.  If smaller sites were giving the wrong sites too much influence, Google’s search results would not be accurate.  In the end, the crowd still rules.  To be smart at the top, the system has to be smart all the way through.

"The place to find is within yourself."

I searched and waited and when
no enlightenment happened,
I knew I was That.
~ Darina Stoyanova ~

In times of darkness, one must simply stop searching for the light, and become the glow for others to follow

Solitude is a good place to visit, but a poor place to stay

With a suitcase full of dreams to sell and an earful of stories to tell I walk away from the place I once called home. A new chapter in my life is about to unfold as I search for the answers along the road. Until I find a place I can all my home.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it's a waste of time looking for him further.

In a story told in many traditions and versions; a man is crouched over the ground at night under a lamppost obviously looking for something.  A passerby asks, "Have you lost something?", "Yes, my key," he says.  "Did you lose it here?"  "No", he says, "over there, but there's light over here."

May you continue learning, searching and changing. May the winds of karma (fate, kismet) blow you to places of love, people of love and may you find the teachings you need to grow and have fun with.

In a world where we are all searching for the right answers, often without results, have you ever given thought to what the right questions are?

It's better to search, than to be searched.

It is time to get back to basics, time to go back to nature and ourselves.
~ Darina Stoyanova ~

“Behind most healthy people, there are a lot of unhealthy times.”
~ Darina Stoyanova ~

“Before healing come searching, trying and believing.”
~ Darina Stoyanova ~

You've been walking in circles, searching. Don't drink by the water's edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end.