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[...]
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November 16th, 2009 - 4:35 pm § in Search engines
Serendipity on the Web
Tags: Amanda Spink, Entropy, Information retrieval, Internet search engines, Jaime Teevan, Louis Pasteur, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft;, partially-relevant search results, Paul André, Personalization, search engine, Search engine results page, search engine results;, search results;, Serendipity, Southampton University, Susan Dumais;, Web search engine, web search engine query logs, Web search query, web search; 1 Comment
July 18th, 2009 - 5:44 pm § in Information retrieval
Assisted search
There’s a post over at Search Engine Land by Kim Krause Berg which highlights recent research being done in search and use behaviour. It’s a nice short summary, very accessible and quotes some pretty authoritative sources such as Jim Jansen for example. I wanted to post about this becaus[...]
Tags: advanced surfer, Amanda Spink, assisted search, conversational systems;, David Robins, easy search, gigantic web site, http://xyz.com, Jim Jansen, Kim Krause Berg, large commercial site, linguist, machine learning;, Natural language search, online marketing, Professor of information science, search engine, search engine results;, search es, search focus, search marketing, Semantic web, site owner, Technology_Internet 4 Comments

