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Category Archives: Exploratory Search
Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR 2011)
Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR 2011) CIKM’2011, Glasgow, UK, October 28th. http://cir2011.fxpal.com/ Organizers ———- – Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc, USA. – Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst Repository Systems, USA. – Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research, USA. – Juan … Continue reading
Close the Loop!
The web is abuzz this week with talk of the Google Books Ngram Viewer. It’s a great tool, and leads to some very interesting exploration and trend visualization. So does this tool fly in the face of my rant from … Continue reading
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The Search User Wants a Story
I fired up reddit this morning and was completely flabbergasted by one of the top posts. The title of the post was “This is Why I Use Google, Not Bing”. And it linked straight to this screenshot (which I reproduce … Continue reading
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
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
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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Exploration, Collaboration, and Open Government
What sort of information retrieval system would you build if you knew that all the users of your system would be expert or highly-motivated amateur searchers? What sort of system would you build when you have a very large collection … Continue reading