Monthly Archives: July 2009

Web Search at 15: Vibrant Content, Stagnant Interface

A number of people have already written about the Sue Dumais “Salton Award” talk at SIGIR.  I encourage you to read their posts, and in particular pay attention to the emphasis that she put on her work at the intersection … Continue reading

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Is All Relevance “Googly” Relevance? Aka Google’s `Microsoft Moment’

I just finished reading a though provoking post from Anil Dash, about how Google’s recent Chrome OS announcement signifies an important moment:  This is, for lack of a better term, Google’s “Microsoft Moment”. This is the point when the difference … Continue reading

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Googling with Bing

I’ve been rather quiet on the blog as of late, and that will probably continue for a while.  My summer has been much busier than expected.  In the meantime, I’ll share a short sketch that I recently came across, entitled … Continue reading

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Will Chrome OS have RAW support?

Much ado has been made today in the blogosphere about the newly announced (but 1.5 years from being shipped) Chrome OS from that search engine company, Google.  Here is an excerpt from the announcement:  We designed Google Chrome for people who live on … Continue reading

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