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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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I’d hope that a job description would align with these kinds of questions.
I’d hope that a job description would align with these kinds of questions. It’s one of the reasons to publish questions — the interviewing process shouldn’t be...
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Interview Questions for Search Relevance Engineers and Product Managers
Technical interviewing is hard, and it’s a subject I’m very passionate about personally.But this post isn’t about technical interviewing in general. It’s specifically...
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A/B Testing for Search is Different
A/B testing is a critical tool for improving search products. While A/B testing has limitations and shouldn’t be the only analytical method you use, it’s the single...
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You’re welcome, Dima!
You’re welcome, Dima!The best technique I know for encouraging users to enter natural language searches is to promote them through autocomplete. For example, on...
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Query Understanding and Chatbots
In this series, I’ve focused on the context of traditional search applications, which are the main beneficiaries of better query understanding. But given the rapid...
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Query Understanding and Voice Interfaces
On the surface, using a voice interface for search doesn’t seem that different from typing text into a search box.Converting speech to text and vice versa is aAmazon...
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Indeed, there are lots of challenges with faceted search in practice.
Indeed, there are lots of challenges with faceted search in practice.With regard to the three problems you raise:1) I agree that faceted search has a way of unlocking...
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Question Answering
When we talk about search, we have traditionally thought in terms of search results being documents or products. Searchers, however, increasingly think of search...
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Search Results Clustering
Search queries that express broad intent often return intractably large result sets. We’ve already discussed faceted search as a way to help users narrow theirScatter...
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Search Result Snippets
Search result snippets, also known as query-biased summaries, are the additional context included with each result on the search results page. They are an essential...
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Search Results Presentation
Until now, we’ve mostly focused on query processing — which is to be expected, given that this series is about query understanding. But given that searchers are...
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Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series.
Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series.
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Faceted Search
Faceted search is a topic broad enough to deserve its own book. It has become a standard feature of all modern search engines, including open-source platforms like...
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I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index…
I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index the LinkedIn public profiles. Quite the opposite.Here’s what I said...
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Thanks Randy!
Thanks Randy! And I promise I’ll discuss some of the issues of mobile and voice interfaces in future posts.
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Relevance Feedback
The idea of modeling search as a conversation has been around for decades. One of the oldest ideas in information retrieval is relevance feedback, which dates back...
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I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do…
I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do so with the expectation that their public profile will appear...
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Thank you for the kind words.
Thank you for the kind words. As for your second point, Nick Bostrom defines “superintelligence” as “an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains...
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An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines:
An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines: Travel sites that inform you whether you can get better prices if your dates are flexible...
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