Techmeme: Why Silicon Valley Should Be Worried (Om Malik/GigaOM) (6)
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Om Malik / GigaOM : Why Silicon Valley Should Be Worried — We have short memories in Silicon Valley, which is both a blessing and a curse. We forget the bad times as quickly as we forget the good times.
Google’s new search will be the best of both worlds (1)
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Which do you trust more, humans or machines? Google has released a video showing a Digg-like interface to its search. I think it’s going to change everything. A casual glance at Friendfeed picked up a link from Chris Brogan: entitled ‘Is this the future of search?’ Given that I’m currently scratching my head a lot and figuring out how best to pull together searches across social media, this sounded interesting. It pointed to this Techcrunch ...
DWPub Sporadic: Online PR needs resource (1)
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Daryl Willcox's views on the worlds of media, digital marketing, PR and journalism, featuring the best from the DWPub Sporadic email newsletter for media relations specialists
Celebrating young computer scientists (7)
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Last week, the ten grand prize winners for the first Google Highly Open Participation Contest, our initiative to get pre-university students involved in open source development. We were very excited to welcome these burgeoning computer scientists and their families to Silicon Valley in a celebration of their many accomplishments.Our grand prize winners and the Open Source teamChosen from more than 350 students worldwide, our winners created software, documentation and marketing materials for ten different open ...
Who Else Shall We Sue Today? (2)
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A reader of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer named Keith Hempstead is suing the newspaper because, he argues, recent staff cuts have made the paper not worth the money he paid when he renewed his subscription. Hempstead, perhaps not surprisingly, is himself a lawyer. Highlights from the N&O's own report: In a phone interview today, Hempstead, [...]
Revamped Last.fm boasts 'smartest' ads on the web - Times Online (6)
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Revamped Last.fm boasts 'smartest' ads on the webTimes Online, UK - 41 minutes agoA new type of web advertising that interacts with the site on which it appears is to make its debut on Last.fm, the social music site. ...
Cursor of death for the humble mouse? (1)
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Has the Long-Tail Theory Been Disproved? (1)
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Torture Royalties (3)
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We've tackled the future of music distribution and we've taken on the War on Terror. But what happens when the two intersect? Apparently, guards at Guantanamo Bay have been playing David Gray's "Babylon" at all hours of the day and night, to distress detainees and soften them up for interrogation. Since this arguably constitutes a [...]
PR Firms and Publicists - Get Your Clients .ME Domains Tomorrow (1)
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UPDATE: Well, the .me registration was a complete and utter fiasco. Speaking from personal experience, and reporting from Mashable (soon to be joined by a lot of other reporting, I predict) - this was one of the worst examples of customer experience in my 15 years online. It took one full hour to check out. After having to reload every step in their byzantine shopping cart at least 3 times, I finally was able to ...
A portrait of the artist as a book buyer (1)
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This modern world our ours works in mysterious ways. The Guardian newspaper (the London one, not the San Francisco Bay Guardian one where I started my career twenty years ago, nor the Moscow Guardian one where I served as Art Director fifteen years ago) asked me last week to write an article about my book and visual thinking. The article ran in Saturday's paper across the UK, and I received several complimentary notes from readers, ...
The Telegraph’s Most Powrful People list (1)
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Ooh! Another list of influencers! How novel. For anyone who’s thinking of using this as the basis for an influencer program, think on these questions:What’s the basis on which these influencers were chosen? As far as I can tell, the methodology appears to be: pick the top firms in the UK in each sector, find out the name of the CEO, include on list, randomise names on list to mask lack of objective rationale.Can this ...
Technologies behind Google ranking (115)
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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
Twitter Traffic Soaring In The UK (7)
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The UK is dominating America when it comes to Twitter usage. New analysis out by Hitwise this morning shows British use of Twitter was a full 70 percent higher than American use last week. UK visits to the site jumped a massive 631 percent over the past 12 months. The researchers note that their measurements are probably even on the low side, as they don’t include cell phone usage and other non-traditional site traffic. Another ...
US faces global funding crisis, warns Merrill Lynch (1)
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Vodafone presents punter with £500k phone bill | The Register (1)
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'Yes, of course I have the keypad locked' A Vodafone customer from Norwich has pitched his claim for the largest ever single-person phone bill after getting a demand from Vodafone for £588,198, and fifteen pence. ….
