Information Retrieval Gupf

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 of HCI and IR.  I see this area as only continuing to grow over the [...]

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 between their internal conception of the company starts to diverge just a bit too far from [...]

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 “Googling with Bing“.  Enjoy.

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 the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just [...]