Monthly Archives: June 2009

Speed Matters. So Does the Metric.

Via Greg Linden, I came across the following experimental result from Google as to the importance of quickly returning results to users.  The gist of the experiment is summed up in the abstract: Experiments demonstrate that increasing web search latency … Continue reading

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Semantic Technology Search Panel

On Wednesday I attended the Executive Round Table on Semantic Search, at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.  Researchers from Ask, Hakia, Yahoo, Google, Powerset/Bing, and True Knowledge were on the panel.  In the next few days I hope to give … Continue reading

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Exploratory Food Search

I came across an interesting article today in the New Scientist on the topic of mass-scale food annotation.  The idea is that we can instrument our food, so that we know much more about its origin and manner of production: … Continue reading

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200 Signals, Still Only One Route

Via Paul Lamere, I came across this recent Google blogpost on large scale graph computing.  I started reading, and quickly became excited by what I was hearing: A relatively simple analysis of a standard map (a graph!) can provide the … Continue reading

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Compare Google Yahoo Bing

I would like to point to a post worth reading, over at Blogoscoped, about personal, blind side-by-side comparisons of the various contending search engines.  I have seen studies like this for years, both on the web and in published, academic … Continue reading

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