Daily Reading: A 12 Step Program for Value Destruction (3)
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1) Underinvest in innovation (note the relatively small scale involved). 2) Overinvest in consolidation. 3) Make profit an illusion. 4)Defend obsolete business models. 5) Be willing to sell everything out - everything. 6) Never count tomorrow's costs. 7) Build industries around the cult of the deal. 8) Turn corporate governance into the costliest activity in the economy. 9) Forget that the point of business is to change the world for the better. 10) Expropriate wealth ...
Monitor110: A Post Mortem (9)
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Writing a post mortem is hard, particularly when the result is failure: a failed deal; a failed investment; a failed concept. That said, without a post mortem, without deep reflection, honesty and introspection, how can we get better and do better the next time? Quite simply, we can't. My involvement with Monitor110, as an investor, Board member and leader, was one of the most interesting and informative experiences of my life. I learned about areas ...
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Pat said:
lessons learned
Technologies behind Google ranking (139)
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In my previous post, I introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking. As part of our effort to discuss search quality, I want to tell you more about the technologies behind our ranking. The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR). The IR community has studied search for almost 50 years. It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages. (See "Modern Information Retrieval: ...
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smuggyuk said:
It is great that they tell us all about their great synonym and concept systems, what would have been a better post would be to tell us they're opening up these great systems via an API so others can make use of the hard work they've put in. Shame!
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Ihar Mahaniok said:
Great examples by Amit. As for me, localizing globally is one of the greatest challenge, but it's worth it..
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Linda said:
This just astounds me.
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Umang Saini said:
Lots of bragging about the queries they got right. What about the ones that fail flatly?Interesting work in IR, whatever that is :-)
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Brandon Bloom said:
You already know this, but it is nice to hear spelled out: "Google is really good at search"
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Eric said:
Interesting to see how their system can distinguish between what you actually searched for and what you wanted to search for. The synonyms based upon intent are amazing stuff.
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shuman said:
Some good explanations of the technical challenges Google search handles.
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Reece said:
Google gives it to you in, fairly, plain English. Unfortunately, they describe basic search and retrieval concepts in a way that makes the reader think they invented them. Hardly standing on the shoulders of giants . . .
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Derek said:
really interesting look into all of the strides Google has made in search
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juzcoim said:
really worth reading
Mariah Carey is made of discarded robot parts (2)
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An astonishing Elle cover is up at the ever-amazing Photoshop disasters blog, making Mariah Carey look like something cobbled together from a dumpsterful of broken gynoids, unscrewing its own head. Gawker wonders why such madness can happen somewhere like Elle. Perhaps the people behind these dreadful photoshops are paginators or layout designers, with no artistic training and no anatomical knowledge, tasked with problems beyond their ken. Mariah Carey reassembled [Photoshop Disasters]
