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Author Archives: jeremy
Simplicity: Sparsity or Storytelling?
A tweet by @akumar prompted me to punch up this quick blogpost: as with all controversial issues, there’s a positive in google trying bing/image – that they’re not afraid to learn from competition What Amit is referring to is the … Continue reading
Seeing Stars
There is an interesting blogpost on the Official Google blog today, about seeing stars: We’ve long believed that personalization makes search more relevant and fun. For nearly five years, we’ve been tailoring results with personalized search. Today we’re announcing a … Continue reading
Embark Together
I would like to quickly follow up on my previous post on explicitly collaborative information seeking. My claim in that post was that, despite the shared terminology, a service like Aardvark (or Twitter) is not truly collaborative. Let me be … Continue reading
Don’t Forget Explicitly Collaborative Information Seeking
A panel on Social Search is happening at SXSW right now. Reading Danny Sullivan’s liveblogging, I came across the panel’s definition of the three distinct types of social searching. And I think they left one out: Collective (gathering advice from … Continue reading
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Search in Social Media
What is Social Search as opposed to Social Media? Social Search in Media? Search in Social Media? Next week, Gene Golovchinsky and I are moderating a pair of panels at the SSM workshop. So we spent some time this week … Continue reading
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Kasparov and Good Interaction Design
A NYT books article about Kasparov and chess, and the relationship between humans, machines, and decision processes is making the Twitter rounds today. I don’t have time at the moment to write a long comment about it, but I do … Continue reading
What You Can Find Out
The Edge has published their annual question for 2010: HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK? As an Information Retrieval research scientist, I of course was quite interested in what search folks had to say. I found this … Continue reading
Search versus Recommendation: Not The Only Tension
Greg Linden has an interesting post on Search on a domain like YouTube. I reproduce it here because I would like to elaborate on it: The article focuses on YouTube’s “plans to rely more heavily on personalization and ties between … Continue reading
A Fragile Local Maximum for the Web
On Twitter today, Josh Young made an interesting observation to which I would like to call attention: Ya, @jerepick, with “fauxpen” attached, google’s “nav. search as the top of the stack” is a fragile local maximum for the web. This … Continue reading
Google and the Meaning of Open
There is a fantastic Google blog post today by Jonathan Rosenberg on the meaning (and value) of openness. Whooo-boy.. where do we start with this can of worms? Guess I’ll jump right in. Warning: This is probably the longest post … Continue reading