Yes, it does already have a name and we’re already wondering how best to avoid it. Meta-tags have been rendered untrustworthy because of dishonest manipulation (honest manipulation is ok), especially the keywords tag which is pretty much useless now. Search engines depend on a wide variety of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘MIT;’
June 12th, 2009 - 6:17 pm § in TWIG
This week in Geekdom – phrE3Z1ng
Greetings, welcome to another edition of TWIG. I hope that you’ve all been enjoying all the geeky stuff coming out of all the conferences recently and that you’re enjoying discovering the never ending stream of programming languages that seem to appear almost over night. You have no doub[...]
June 11th, 2009 - 2:04 pm § in Information retrieval
Extracting meaning from content: progress
I’m excited when I come across news like this because it’s my area of research. MIT covered this and presented TextRunner, a system capable of extracting meaning from billions of documents. It is not new, but it is working a lot better now which is why it’s exciting. It’s act[...]
May 8th, 2009 - 12:25 pm § in TWIG
This week in Geekdom – 4we5oM3
Greetings…. this is the 2nd edition of TWIG…how time flies! This week has been spent working, but also looking for a new game to play. I have a Fallout3 hangover, please send through recommendations. During my travels I’ve come across some gems this week, and I think you’ll l[...]
March 24th, 2009 - 12:22 pm § in Search engines
Duck Duck Go!
Duck Duck Go is a new search engine that has quietly come along and raised eyebrows. In a good way. You know how we sigh and say “NASE” (not another search engine)? Well that’s exactly what I was thinking until I actually tried it. It’s not a Google killer, nor does i[...]
October 14th, 2008 - 2:19 am § in Uncategorized
Predictions from 1984
Nicholas Negroponte gave a talk in 1984 about his predictions for technology, and he was very accurate. Nicholas Negroponte founded the MIT media lab and is also behond the “one laptop per child” innitiative. I was 6 years old when he gave that talk, how old were you? He predicted wi[...]
