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Category Archives: Information Retrieval Foundations
A Button Without The Treat
A few months ago I wrote a post entitled +1 is Explicit, but is not Relevance Feedback. I am often personally concerned that, with many of the posts I write, I am being pedantic. However, last week TechCrunch came to … Continue reading
They Won People Over By A Logical Argument
Via @glinden, I enjoyed this article on why GDrive (an early cloud document/file store) was never launched by Google: At the time [2008], Google was about to launch a project it had been developing for more than a year, a … Continue reading
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
+1 is Explicit, but is not Relevance Feedback
A week or so ago, Google introduced it’s answer to the Facebook “Like”. It is called “+1”. Here is a quote from the official announcement: The +1 button is shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.” Click … Continue reading
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Search Algorithms versus Asimov’s First Law of Robotics
Search Engine Land has a short article on bias versus brands. The issue at hand is whether Google Instant has a brand bias. Google says it does not: Singhal explains that when someone types in T, mathematically “most people typing … Continue reading
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Miffed and Confused
Have been on a six month blogging hiatus, and wouldn’t you know it.. it took another fun Google article to pull me back. It is a recent FastCompany piece, entitled Google to Zuckerberg, Bing: We Still Innovate. The premise of … Continue reading
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
More on Simplicity and the Paradox of Choice
I came across an interesting blogpost today, entitled “The Paradox of Choice is Not Robust“. To requote their quote: Benjamin Scheibehenne, a psychologist at the University of Basel, was thinking along these lines when he decided (with Peter Todd and, … Continue reading
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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