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 Micro[...]
Posts Tagged ‘search engine results;’
January 15th, 2009 - 3:21 pm § in Search engines
Search Engine Result Evaluation
Search engines are often evaluated using information retrieval techniques such a precision and recall. These methods are very effective metrics in these systems but less so in search engines. The reasons for this is that high precision isn’t necessarily a good measure of user satisfaction.[...]
November 26th, 2008 - 3:08 am § in Uncategorized
SearchWiki according to me
I don’t usually post about already well covered news, but in the case of the Google SearchWiki I will make a small exception. Search Wiki allows you to manipulate the search engine results and leave comments for others about a result. There is an awful lot more information on the actual Goo[...]
