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 [[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft;’
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 - 12:58 am § in Information retrieval
Microsoft and Information Retrieval
With the advent of Bing and the fact that it works really well, people are starting to take Microsoft seriously in the search domain. The previous offerings were not as strong as Google and with Google being such a behemoth in search, it was going to take a fair bit to even cause a tremor. [...][...]
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 [...][...]
May 25th, 2009 - 1:36 pm § in Tutorials
How does search engine personalisation work?
Search engines are personalising their results and not only in the SERPS but also in the paid ads arena and for things like Google alerts for example. It’s important to understand why personalisation is difficult, how it works and what future directions are. Without this information it’s[...]
March 17th, 2009 - 10:46 am § in Information retrieval, Information/text analysis, Search engines, Tutorials
How does a search engine know what words mean?
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) belongs to the field of computational linguistics. It’s the research area dedicated to finding ways for machines to understand the meaning of words. More precisely, it’s about determining the word sense of a particular word in a context. This [...]
February 20th, 2009 - 7:23 pm § in TGIF
TGIF – \(^o^)/
Welcome to another installment of TGIF, I do hope the week has been kind to you and that it has left you with a warm glow and good news to share. If not, and you had a bad week, have an especially good weekend, and treat yourself to a couple of your favourite things. If [...][...]
February 10th, 2009 - 9:29 am § in Uncategorized
What is an algorithm?
Let’s get right back down to basics and look at what an algorithm is. There are several different types, and it can all get a little bit confusing sometimes. It can be very complicated and it can also be simple. If you intend to make complicated ones, then you’ll need to delve in[...]
January 16th, 2009 - 2:18 pm § in TGIF
TGIF – yippie
Welcome to another installment of TGIF. I am assuming that those of you who have had a very cold week will not want to hear about how hot and sunny it is here in Thailand so I won’t expand. I hope that you have all had a great week and that you picked up a [...][...]
