Essays and everything else
Every post since January 2000, newest first. The early ones are short.
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June 25, 2003
The Search for Intelligent Search
The latest in Tim Bray’s series on search
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June 25, 2003
Download, Burn, Boot, Play
Dyne:bolic is another bootable Linux distro that’s focused on “Media” application. However what makes this one special, in addition to the multimedia applications, is that it will …
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June 25, 2003
Discovery Systems on the Road to Business Intelligence
“Leading enterprise search and classification vendors, including IBM, Verity, Inxight and Stratify, have recently introduced “discovery systems” designed to automatically identify …
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June 25, 2003
Microsoft Targeting Google
“The fact that Longhorn is on the horizon raises questions to whether search services will be integrated into the Longhorn experience and what the ramifications will be to other …
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June 24, 2003
Fresh slices of the RSS Pie
There’s a lively discussion on diveintomark about the road map for a new syndication format (i.e. a new version or RSS), which is in-and-of-itself a discussion of sorts on Sam …
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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 …
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June 20, 2003
The Motive of Uncle Orrin (no relation)
Based on the recent comments by Senator Orrin Hatch (no relation) and the ongoing reactions, I remembered a quote of his I posted back in February of 2001, which implied that …
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June 19, 2003
Info Aggregator: RSS-to-IMAP service
The folks over at Blogstreet have released an RSS-to-IMAP service called Info Aggregator, which is pretty slick. (link via Blogroots)
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June 18, 2003
Nobody Uses Advanced Search
Tim Bray’s second installment on search…
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June 17, 2003
Rumor: Microsoft looking to buy Accenture?
“…one of my moles reported that Team Redmond might be looking to buy Accenture, the $11 billion consulting company. Apparently, Microsoft and Accenture have been engaged in some …