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Category Archives: Information Retrieval Foundations
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
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
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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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