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Author Archives: jeremy
Is Good Enough Good Enough?
“The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine” is the title of a new Wired article. In it, Robert Capps makes the following point: The world has sped up, become more connected and a whole lot busier. … Continue reading
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A Bird in the Hand…
As a researcher, I have more questions than answers. And one of the questions that I have is in regards to the widely-accepted maxim that users are too lazy to give explicit relevance feedback to the search engine. See Danny … Continue reading
Information Retrieval Jujitsu
On my drive to work this morning, as I mentally began preparing for all the research I wanted to accomplish today, I started thinking about the relationship between information retrieval, machine learning, probability, and statistics. And I found myself wondering … Continue reading
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Marissa Mayer talk at PARC
I just got back from a PARC open forum, in which Marissa Mayer gave a talk about the Physics of Data, and Innovation at Google. All in all, it was fine. Maybe a third of the talk was about new … Continue reading
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Google not very Googly
If it wasn’t official before, it is now. Google self-advertises: In the latest shot fired in Google Inc.’s ongoing battle with Microsoft Corp., Google announced today that it’s taking this fight to the streets. Literally. Google is kicking off a … Continue reading
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Comments: Search Engines and Advertising
I have been quiet lately on the blogpost front. Am still looking for a free moment to write up my reactions to the recent SIGIR 2009 conference. In the meantime, I am having a good time with Neal Richter and … Continue reading
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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
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
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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