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66 posts filed under Search.

July 2, 2003

Synonyms! Fuzzy! Thesauri! Oh my!
“There are other ways than thesauri to improve the recall of search systems. Perhaps the best known is “Latent Semantic Indexing.” “
June 25, 2003

The Search for Intelligent Search
The latest in Tim Bray’s series on search
June 23, 2003

Precision and Recall
“While precision and recall are very helpful in talking about how good search systems are, they are nightmarishly difficult to actually use, quantitatively. First of all, the …
June 18, 2003

Nobody Uses Advanced Search
Tim Bray’s second installment on search…
June 16, 2003

Search is Commoditized
“All search engines work more or less the same, and offer more or less the same APIs, and provide more or less the same quality of result.”
May 22, 2003

Personal and Enterprise Search
For some reason I missed this post from last week by Jon Udell about Indexing and searching Outlook email, but I thought his concluding paragraphs had a much broader impact on …
May 19, 2003

Topic-Sensitive page rankings feasible
A new paper by a Stanford group claims substantial increase in calculating Page Rank performance (used by Google), which could make room for personalized topical searches.
April 28, 2003

Corporations seek better search results
“In the field of customer intelligence, search analytics is poised to become a star. However, some say it remains somewhat limited, much like enterprise search itself” (via CNet)
April 24, 2003

Determine the last result in Google
Ross Rader calls it, “Googlediving” and he provides a simple HOWTO. (link via Doc)
April 1, 2003

Ask Google?
AvaQuest has a neat Google hack called GooglePeople that demonstrates “it is possible to scour the Web for answers to questions using the vast data repository provided by Google.”