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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
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
Posted in Exploratory Search
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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
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