The San Francisco Chronicle has an article out this week entitled “Social science meets computer science at Yahoo!”. It’s about how Yahoo have been hiring “highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities around the world”.[...]
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December 7th, 2009 - 8:21 pm § in Search engines
10 papers on personalization (PSearch)
Google announced this week that they would start personalising search results, even for users that are not signed into a Google service at the time. It has caused a consistent flow of posts from the blogosphere and quite a lot of comments as well which show that there is a gap in knowledge at some [[...]
November 16th, 2009 - 4:35 pm § in Search engines
Serendipity on the Web
I’ve been catching up on all my reading these last couple of weeks and I particularly liked “From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its Role in Web Search”. It’s by Paul André from Southampton University together with Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais from Micros[...]
July 3rd, 2009 - 5:02 pm § in Search engines
Search User Interfaces
Just a heads-up in case you missed my tweet: Marti Hearst (Berkeley professor and hands down brilliant in search research) has made her new book “Search User Interfaces” freely available to everyone. You can buy the book if you fancy having a dead-tree copy or you can read the online one[...]
June 16th, 2009 - 6:15 pm § in Search engines
Bing!? Yup Yup.
I’ve read some of the reviews on Bing and the comparisons to the other engines too. It seems that Bing is actually being well recieved by the general public and the SEO people as well. I like Bing, I like Google as well, and I like Yahoo! too but all for different reasons. My reasons [...][...]
June 9th, 2009 - 12:19 am § in Search engines
Bing in less than 5mins
I don’t usually blog about things unless I feel I really have something to add to the current discussion and in the case of Bing I don’t think I do. I haven’t had much time to play with Bing and evaluate it as it deserves to be, so the following is a short list of [...][...]
June 5th, 2009 - 4:37 pm § in Search engines
Inbenta announces New “Semantic Site Search” engine
Just a heads-up: “Inbenta announces the launch of “Semantic Site Search”, a new service (SaaS-based) that provides search to any website within the cloud computing. After four years of development (project codename: voldemort), this search service includes Semantic Search capabilit[...]
May 1st, 2009 - 4:47 pm § in Search engines
Wolfram Screenshots (RWW)
ReadWriteWeb have posted screenshots of Wolfram Alpha in action. Do go and have a look, it’s great that you guys are all going to get to try it out soon as well. As you will see, it is not at all like Google, and I think that the happiest people in the world will be [...][...]
