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Search: The Whole Story

Query understanding and relevance are key aspects of search, but they don’t tell the whole story. A holistic framework for search calls for a broader perspective... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 25, 2019 at 09:01 AM

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Search Engines: A Human Perspective

At first glance, the design and development of search engines appear to be concerned mainly with computer science — particularly information retrieval, machine,... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 11, 2019 at 09:01 AM

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Reflecting on TunkRank

One of my earliest blog posts was “A Twitter Analog to PageRank”, in which I proposed a simple measure for Twitter influence.As the title indicates, the measure... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 19, 2019 at 09:01 AM

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I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 8, 2018 at 02:50 PM

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Mike, I appreciate your detailed response.

Mike, I appreciate your detailed response. And I agree that there are worse possible worlds than our present one — specifically, that replacing disclosed advertising... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 3, 2018 at 04:46 PM

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Are Ads Really That Bad?

Long-time readers know that I’m not a fan of ads. Specifically, I’m not a fan of ad-supported business models. But is that just a matter of personal taste? Or does... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 26, 2018 at 10:01 AM

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Activate 2018: Search in Practice

I don’t always attend conferences. But when I do, I prefer conferences full of search practitioners focused on solving real-world problems.I just came back from... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | October 19, 2018 at 12:39 PM

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Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks for the kind words. As for how to get your team to approach query understanding, it’s hard to give generic advice. But if you can find a way to categorize... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | October 2, 2018 at 11:07 PM

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Query Understanding, Divided into Three Parts

Julius Caesar started his famous text on the Gallic wars with the sentence “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.”Like Gaul, query understanding is, as a whole... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | October 2, 2018 at 12:34 PM

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Thanks for the shout-out!

Thanks for the shout-out! I also recommend Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade’s posts on the subject, which you can find at https://medium.com/related-works-inc. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | September 13, 2018 at 06:00 PM

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Thanks Vibhu.

Thanks Vibhu. There are a lot of published case studies about A/B testing in general, but I’m not sure what’s published specifically about A/B testing for search... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | September 4, 2018 at 11:05 AM

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Thoughts about Managing Search Teams

There are lots of articles out there telling you how to be a good manager. This isn’t one of them. This post is specifically directed at people who manage search... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | August 30, 2018 at 10:02 AM

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Real Talk About Synonyms and Search

When I talk to software engineers and product managers about improving their search engines, the conversation often leads to query expansion, and specifically synonyms... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | August 20, 2018 at 10:01 AM

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I can’t share those details, but I can say that geography certainly impact latency when you’re…

I can’t share those details, but I can say that geography certainly impact latency when you’re serving from the cloud, especially when you are doing query processing... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | August 17, 2018 at 11:06 AM

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Search: Should You Build, Buy, or Borrow?

Search: Should You Build, Buy, Or Borrow?A challenge that many companies face is deciding whether to build, buy, or borrow their core search technology. As with... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | August 17, 2018 at 10:01 AM

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Thanks Shawn!

Thanks Shawn! I think that Amazon was the first place that I saw this flow, and it certainly inspired my team’s work at LinkedIn. Amazon’s price sort can still... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | August 7, 2018 at 11:55 PM

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I agree that the search engine can only do so much to make up for poorly structured data.

I agree that the search engine can only do so much to make up for poorly structured data. If you look at one my “shopping is hard” post, you’ll see that my top... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | August 6, 2018 at 06:05 PM

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Why is it so hard to sort by price?

A common use case for online shopping is searching for products — say, coffee makers — and then sorting the results by price, from low to high, in order to find... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | August 6, 2018 at 10:01 AM

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Analyze This!

Product development work should be data-driven — or, to be more precise, data-informed. We live in an age of science, which means that we should use data to resolve... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | July 30, 2018 at 10:01 AM

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Shopping is Hard, Let’s go Searching!

In 1992, Mattel released the infamous Teen Talk Barbie, most known — and rightfully mocked — for saying “Math is hard, let’s go shopping!” Actually, that’s a paraphrase... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | July 23, 2018 at 11:01 AM