Her algorithm was crude by modern standards—a ballet of punched cards and electromechanical relays—but the philosophy was stunningly prescient. She argued that a search engine should rank results not by frequency (how many times a word appears), but by relevance (how central the concept is to the document’s argument). So why haven’t you heard of Christiane Gonod?
Before Google, before Boolean logic, a French librarian tried to teach machines how to think like humans. christiane gonod
The Forgotten Architect of Search: How Christiane Gonod Built a Bridge Between Books and Code Her algorithm was crude by modern standards—a ballet