I am as many of you will know a Google supporter because I think that they’re always developing new and interesting things, and that they write good papers too. I like their search engine, and I’ve followed them since the beginning. I use other search engines too like Yahoo for example[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’
February 17th, 2009 - 2:30 pm § in Uncategorized
Yahoo! Research on the healthy Sem Web
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Peter Mika and Hugo Zaragoza from Yahoo! Research wrote a really insightful, meaningful and down to earth article called “Search, Web 2.0, and the semantic web”. It is a response to all of the buzz around those topics. If anyone can give a straight answer on thes[...]
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 21st, 2008 - 12:54 am § in Uncategorized
Google voice search – say wha?
Google released voice search on the pretty looking iphone this week. The google mobile blog post on it is cool with a video and everything, and you’ll also find a low-down over at C-Net. Many of you will know 1-800-GOOG-411. The whole point of that operation was to gather enough phone[...]
October 31st, 2008 - 3:08 am § in Uncategorized
Corpus for nasty web spam
Researches who study webspam are limited by the lack of corpus available. There is one that gets used quite often called “WEBSPAM-UK2007“, released by Yahoo. There’s also the 2006 version. It’s really useful but as they say, it was generated to aid the researchers so it[...]
October 27th, 2008 - 10:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Cleaning up misconceptions
I asked around for common myths and misconceptions about the web or the Internet that people found the most annoying and gave them the chance to put them right 1) The Internet is not the same as the world-wide-web: The Internet was invented by DARPA with ARPANET in 1969 (it is a global system of [[...]
October 23rd, 2008 - 5:56 am § in Uncategorized
Google tricks and treats
Google hosted an online session with presentations from Googlers, with question-answering time too using Google moderator. Matt Cutts was there of course, and John Mueller, Kaspar Szymanski, and other notable Googlers. I hate duplicate content more than Google, so when I can avoid it, I do! I [...]
