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Google+ Is Like 401K For Search

February 1, 2012 by Matthew Hurst
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I'm trying to figure out which camera to go for: the GoPro or the Contour. When I search on Google for help in finding some way to compare, it was suggested to me to ask on Google+: I then waited for someone to answer. I got nothing. Of course, I'm sure if I had the right set of connections I would have found a sweet expert opinion that... [read more]

Digital Reasoning’s Synthesys

January 18, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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Solutions exist to better deliver documents via search and indexing, but with Synthesys, Digital Reasoning tries a different approach by automatically pulling facts, entities, relationships, and associated terms from structured and unstructured data so analysts don’t need to read all of the documents themselves. [read more]

Did Web Search Kill Artificial Intelligence?

January 16, 2012 by Matthew Hurst
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The most commonly referenced definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the Turing Test which avoids the tricky questions like 'what is intelligence' or 'what does it mean to think' and replaces them simply by the test of recognizing an anonymous agent as a fellow human (and, therefore, intelligent). A key aspect of this... [read more]

Social Searching Everything, For Everyone: Product Review

December 12, 2011 by Bryan Halfpap
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"What could you do if you had access to all of twitter all at once? What if you combined that with 75 million other data feeds? And combined it with an easy-to-use-tool and impressive visuals? What if it were a service software?" [read more]

GSA USASearch Wins 2011 Government Big Data Solutions Award

November 8, 2011 by Bob Gourley
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Award judges saw the USASearch Program as a great example of solving Big Data problems to improve government agility and provide better service for less. In line with the GSA’s cost-saving “build once, use many times” paradigm, USASearch has provided hosted search services for USA.gov and, through its Affiliate Program, over 500 other government websites. [read more]

Entities, Relationships, and Semantics: Strata NY Panel on the State of Structured Search

November 7, 2011 by Daniel Tunkelang
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A very informative panel discussion with experts from Google, Alias-i, the New York Times and IBM Research. [read more]

Facebook's Growing Web Platform

September 28, 2011 by Michael Fauscette
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"So, is Facebook the new web platform or perhaps just increasingly the "onramp" of choice for more and more people to "do" stuff on the web. In fact Facebook is increasingly an important part of search, with people using the curated content and their own network to get information and advice. One thing's for sure, revenue is growing rapidly and the changes in just a year seem to be feeding even more growth in time spent and revenue...and also personal value? C." [read more]

A Quick Look at PostRank’s White Paper on URL-Based Monitoring

April 15, 2011 by Maggie Fox
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PostRank’s new white paper Listening Beyond Keywords highlights some key ideas to consider in the realm of social media monitoring as well as the need to move past the standard keyword-based approach. PostRank thinks the future is in URL-based content monitoring and they make a pretty good case. (more) As people in the industry know so... [read more]

Findability Inside the Firewall – Still Trying to Find the Information We Need

January 31, 2011 by Julie Hunt
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Google and Search are now infamously synonymous for successfully looking for almost anything out there on the worldwide web (regardless of recent speculation about Google Search losing some of its edge). Unfortunately, inside the firewall, it’s a different story. Many organizations have increasing explosions of content, intelligence sources, data, and internal collaboration sites: all of which contain information that the staff of these organizations need to do their jobs. [read more]

A Question of User Expectations

October 25, 2010 by Daniel Tunkelang
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Ideally, a search engine would read the user’s mind. Shy of that, a search engine should provide the user with an efficient process for expressing an information need and then provide the user with results relevant to the that need. From an information scientist’s perspective, these are two distinct problems to solve in the information... [read more]

Impact of Google Instant on paid search

October 13, 2010 by David Smith
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When Google introduced Google Instant (where search results are displayed as you type), it was certainly a boon for searchers. Personally, I've started visiting the Google homepage after years of just using the search box in Firefox (and now Chrome), and enjoying the improved search experience. (And I get to see those neat Doodles, too... [read more]

LinkedIn Signal = Exploratory Search for Twitter

October 2, 2010 by Daniel Tunkelang
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I like Twitter. Yes, I know that a lot of its content is noise. But I’ve found Twitter to be a useful professional tool for both publishing and consuming information. Publishing to Twitter is the easy part: I publish links to my blog posts and occasionally engage in public conversations. Consuming information from Twitter is more... [read more]

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Wolfram/Alpha and the future of search

September 27, 2010 by Stephen Baker
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Stephen Wolfram predicts that just as documents went from paper to digital, they'll next become computable. Will humanity have to pre-process its information for machines, or will language-savvy search engines save us the work? [read more]

Search with Slashtags: Taking Blekko Out for a Spin

August 6, 2010 by Daniel Tunkelang
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If you’re a search engine junkie like me, you’ve probably heard about Blekko, a search engine that has been percolating for over two years and recently launched a private beta. If not, I encourage you to watch the TechCrunch video I’ve embedded above. You can join the beta by following them on Twitter. I did that earlier this week, and... [read more]

13 Tips for a Better Web Site

June 2, 2010 by Sundeep Kapur
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1 - Choose an effective color that matches your brand. Have less contrast and use no more than three colors. 2 - Give people a place to go next. Make it easy for them to find things. Keep the confusion out and give people simple options. 3 - Focus on site navigation and the search box is king. People know how to 'google' stuff. 4... [read more]

Capturing Knowledge, and Making it ‘Findable’ (2 of 4)

May 25, 2010 by James MacLennan
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Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? Previously, I talked about the critical importance of capturing knowledge, and capturing it effectively. Let’s assume, for now, that the organization has bought off on the idea that capturing this information is worth doing – and, that they are doing it well. Let’s also assume that all of our content is... [read more]