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”.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘search results;’
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[...]
May 15th, 2009 - 1:12 pm § in Semantic web
Google semantic web
This is indeed an “I told you so” post. If you don’t recognise the logo above, then this is aimed at you Google have announced (12 May) that they are going to be using “Rich snippets”: “Rich Snippets give users convenient summary information about their search res[...]
April 21st, 2009 - 1:13 pm § in SEO & marketing
Over-optimised sites nullified
A very useful and eye-opening paper crossed my desk called “Nullification test collections for web spam and SEO” by Jones and Ramesh, Hawking and Craswell from Canberra University in Australia. They want to encourage the compilation of a large corpus for adversial IR research. CMU are bu[...]
April 6th, 2009 - 8:40 pm § in Information retrieval
Dr. Searcher and Mr. Browser
A really interesting method, partly for combating search result manipulation is described in “Dr. Searcher and Mr. Browser: A unified hyperlink-click graph” by Poblete (Uni. Pompeu Fabra), Castillo and Gionis (Yahoo). They worked on making a unified graph representation of the web includ[...]
November 13th, 2008 - 11:26 pm § in Uncategorized
New Google patent – more personalization
Google publish (another) patent on the 11th November. This one is interesting because it deals with serving up queries in a preferred language. It means that your search is no longer limited to English sources exclusively if you’re in the UK or US or somewhere, because you can specify a la[...]
November 6th, 2008 - 11:49 pm § in Uncategorized
The Information Retrieval Facility symposium
The Information Retrieval Facility is hosting a live stream of its event in Austria over the next couple of days. The IRF is non-profit, Open Science friendly, publishes a lot, and is committed to transparency. It’s an Open IR science institution providing information on scientific results a[...]
