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Aardvark Burrows Out Of Beta
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Aardvark Burrows Out Of Beta

I just received an email from Max Ventilla, CEO of social search startup Aardvark, to let me know that Aardvark is now open to anyone who wants to sign up. Well...

Search Innovation: Why Can
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Search Innovation: Why Can


And Bing
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And Bing


Student Discount for SIGIR Industry Track
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Student Discount for SIGIR Industry Track

I’m hoping to see many of you at SIGIR 2009 in Boston next month, and specifically at the Industry Track on July 22nd. I wanted to make sure that students were...

Can Real-Time Search Help Hedge Funds?
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Can Real-Time Search Help Hedge Funds?

I haven’t exactly been generous in my opinons about the widespread obsession with “real-time” search. But in today’s Telegraph there’s at least a story that makes...

Marti Hearst
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Marti Hearst

Check out Marti Hearst’s new book on Search User Interfaces! You can read my review here. Thanks to Christina for the heads up.

Free as in Copied from Wikipedia
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Free as in Copied from Wikipedia

You have to love the irony: Waldo Jaquith of the Virgina Quarterly Review discovered that Free: The Future of a Radical Price, the latest book by Wired Editor-in...

JCDL 2009 Proceedings now in ACM Digital Library
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JCDL 2009 Proceedings now in ACM Digital Library

Thanks to Gene for letting us know that the JCDL 2009 proceedings are now available to ACM Digital Library subscribers. Hopefully authors will make their posts...

Google News Adds Author Search
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Google News Adds Author Search

On the Google News Blog today: you can now search by author. Actually, I think you could always search by author from their advanced search page, but now the links...

Bringing the Noise to Technology Review
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Bringing the Noise to Technology Review

As an MIT alum, I take a special pride in having published a short article in the July/August issue of Technology Review. It’s entitled “To Search, Ask” (with credit...

Marti Hearst
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Marti Hearst

Those of you who know Marti Hearst or follow her work may have heard that she’s been writing a book on Search User Interfaces to follow up on her chapter in Ricardo...

Google
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Google

Great post from our commenter-in-chief Jeremy Pickens on his own blog, Information Retrieval Gupf, about comments from Google Director of Research Peter Norvig...

Real-Time But Not Ready For Prime Time
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Real-Time But Not Ready For Prime Time

Extra, extra, read all about it–two new real-time search engines debuted today: CrowdEye and Collecta. I love the headlines from Techmeme: Mashable!: Collecta:...

Google Markets Itself
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Google Markets Itself

I still don’t buy that Google is “gripped with fear“, but I agree with Danny Sullivan’s analysis that Google’s new “Explore Google Search” page (with a link in...

JCDL 2009
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JCDL 2009

For the benefit of those of us not lucky enough to be attending this year’s Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), a number of attendees are live-tweeting...

Spam in the Twitterverse
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Spam in the Twitterverse

I’ve noted in the past that “real-time” alerting systems, in contrast to search engines that place less emphasis on immediacy, are particularly vulnerable to spamming...

Wikipedia: Play The Ball, Not The Man
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Wikipedia: Play The Ball, Not The Man

Today’s Freakonomics blog in the New York Times has a nice post entitled “By a Bunch of Nobodies: A Q&A With the Author of The Wikipedia Revolution“, in which Annika...

Hunch Has Launched
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Hunch Has Launched

For anyone who has been waiting to try Hunch (which really is a “decision engine“) but didn’t manage to snarf an invite, today is your lucky day: Hunch has launched...

Don
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Don

Now this is the sort of publicity that even $100M can’t buy: the New York Post is reporting that, in response to Microsoft’s recent Bing launch, “FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE”...

Guest Post at the Federated Search Blog
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Guest Post at the Federated Search Blog

I wrote a guest post at Sol Lederman’s Federated Search blog entitled “The Problem with Federated Search“. Here’s an excerpt: The case for federated search is straightforward...
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