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Author Archives: jeremy
Loss Leaders versus Exploratory Search
Chris Dixon has a post yesterday about search and the social graph. An interesting read, but what struck me the most was a tangent about how current search engines make money: Lost amid this discussion, however, is that the links … Continue reading
Lookup is to Exploratory Search as P is to NP
Daniel T. has an interesting bipartite use-case model for exploratory search: I know what I want, but I don’t know how to describe it. I don’t know what I want, but I hope to figure it out once I see … Continue reading
The Tyranny of Simplicity, Redux
One of my ongoing research interest areas is in retrieval interfaces that allow more expressive and powerful statements of a user information need. In that spirit, I wrote a minor rant last April about how the Apple iTunes smart playlist … Continue reading
Posted in Information Retrieval Foundations, Music IR
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More Information Is Positive
Via Greg Linden, I came across this interesting quote from Eric Schmidt about the obligation to help newspapers succeed: Finally, Eric claimed Google has a moral duty to help newspapers succeed: Google sees itself as trying to make the world … Continue reading
Posted in Explanatory Search, Social Implications
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The Craft of Storytelling
I’ve been playing around with some old TREC data over the past few days and completely by chance I came across this document. I find it interesting because storytelling is a good metaphor for what we as researchers do when … Continue reading
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Good Interaction Design II: Just Ask
Last March I pointed out a short piece by Tessa Lau about how good interaction design trumps smart algorithms. Today I have a followup. In particular, Xavier Amatriain has a good writeup of the recently concluded Netflix contest. Some of … Continue reading
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Tomorrow’s Data
Jeff Dalton recently wrote about why he doesn’t want your search log data. It is an interesting read, and I recommend going through the whole article and comments. But I want to call attention to one thought in particular: Academia … Continue reading
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Doing to Music What They Did to the Web
I’ve added a couple of updates to my previous post about the “Google Discover Music” service that is launching today. See also Paul’s writeup. But I have been reading Danny’s Sullivan’s liveblog of the release event, and came across a … Continue reading
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Music Search: Exploration or Lookup?
TechCrunch is reporting a new Google Music service, purportedly to be released in about a week here in the U.S.: Matt Ghering, a product marketing manager at Google, has been one of the people talking to the big four music … Continue reading
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Loopy Results and Continuous Deployment
I have more questions than I have answers. One of the topics that I know very little about, and on which I often seek clarification and wisdom, is A/B testing in the context of rapid iteration, rapid deployment online systems. … Continue reading
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