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You Can
From The Noisy Channel

You Can

Lately, I’ve been musing about the Herb Simon quote that launched–or at least popularized–the concepts of information overload and attention economics: in an information...

Holding Back the Rise of the Machines?
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Holding Back the Rise of the Machines?

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is one of my favorite examples of leveraging the internet for innovation: Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires...

Guest Demo: Eric Iverson
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Guest Demo: Eric Iverson

I’m back from vacation, and still digging my way out of everything that’s piled up while I’ve been offline. While I catch up, I thought I’d share with you a demo...

Vacation
From The Noisy Channel

Vacation

Just letting readers know that I’ll be on vacation for the next week. If you are starved for reading materials, check out some of the blogs I read.

WSDM 2010: Day 3
From The Noisy Channel

WSDM 2010: Day 3

Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today is the last day of

WSDM 2010: Day 2
From The Noisy Channel

WSDM 2010: Day 2

Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Unfortunately, I woke up this morning rather under the weather, so I’m having to resort to remotely reporting on the...

WSDM 2010: Day 1
From The Noisy Channel

WSDM 2010: Day 1

Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...

WSDM 2010: Day 1
From The Noisy Channel

WSDM 2010: Day 1

Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...

Report on the Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
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Report on the Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)

Note: this post will also appear on BLOG@CACM. It is my pleasure to report on the 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), a gathering of information...

Blogging SSM 2010 and WSDM 2010
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Blogging SSM 2010 and WSDM 2010

I’m delighted to report that I’ll be blogging about the Search and Social Media Workshop (SSM 2010) and the Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM 2010) for...

Blogs I Read: Search Facets
From The Noisy Channel

Blogs I Read: Search Facets

A couple of years ago, I started The Noisy Channel as a personal blog. Since my then-employer Endeca didn’t have a corporate blog, I became the company’s ambassador...

LinkedIn Search: A Look Beneath the Hood
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LinkedIn Search: A Look Beneath the Hood

Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a presentation by John Wang, search architect at LinkedIn. You may have read my earlier posts about LinkedIn introducing...

Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
From The Noisy Channel

Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)

The 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010) will be held on Wednesday, February 3rd at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, NY. It’s co-located...

Real Time Search Is Personal
From The Noisy Channel

Real Time Search Is Personal

The other day, I promised in a comment thread that I’d write about what I see as real use cases for real-time search. As it happens, I’m experiencing one right...

When Is Faceted Search Appropriate?
From The Noisy Channel

When Is Faceted Search Appropriate?

Earlier this week, Peter Morville and Mark Burrell presented a UIE virtual seminar on “Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns For Great Online Experiences“. It...

Can You
From The Noisy Channel

Can You

Weren’t we just talking about what’s different about mobile search use cases and about how to make web search more exploratory? I may be biased, but I think that...

Search Questions for 2010: What
From The Noisy Channel

Search Questions for 2010: What

Happy New Year to the Noisy Community and everyone else in virtual earshot! I hope everyone is entering 2010 well-rested and ready for great things. And I don’t...

Forget Real-Time, Give Us Over Time!
From The Noisy Channel

Forget Real-Time, Give Us Over Time!

In a recent announcement, Twitter Platform / API Product Manager Ryan Sarver tells us that Twitter is: committed to providing a framework for any company big or...

Faceted Web Search?
From The Noisy Channel

Faceted Web Search?

Researchers from Microsoft say it’s very challenging. Google is trying, but there’s a long way to go. And Eric Iverson just wrote me to describe his own preliminary...

R.I.P. Modista
From The Noisy Channel

R.I.P. Modista

Long-time readers may recall my post about visual search startup Modista last November, or this guest post by one of its principals. Unfortunately, the story has...
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