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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 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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Clarification Dialogues
As we saw in the previous post, modeling search as a conversation makes it possible to overcome breakdowns in communication between the searcher and the searchspelling...
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Search as a Conversation
Most search applications assume a query-response paradigm: the searcher submits a search query, and the search engine responds with results. The query-responseprecision...
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Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing…
Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing at queryunderstanding.com. Those do include more references,...
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Better Search through Better Queries
I spend a lot of time helping companies improve their search engines. Much of my work involves returning better results for their users’ search queries. But there...
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Personalization
In 1964, information science pioneer William Goffman said:Relevance is defined as a measure of information conveyed by a document relative to a query…[but] thecontext...
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Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.
Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.
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Seasonality
Whether it’s the time of year or the time of day, the time when someone performs a search sometimes help us determine the searcher’s intent. As with location, it...
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Geographical Context
Location often provides a strong signal of searcher intent. Sometimes location acts as an implicit part of the search query, such as when people are searching for...
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To Build Better Search, Develop Empathy With Your Users
User experience designers recognize the importance of empathy in the design process. Understanding how and why users engage with products yields insights that help...
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Session Context
The most immediate context for a search query is a search session, a sequence of activities the searcher performs in order to pursue an information-seeking task...
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Why Voice isn’t Selling…Yet
Originally published in VentureBeat.Personal digital assistants have taken the world by storm. We have Siri and Google Assistant on our phones, and many of us have...
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Evaluating Search: Using Human Judgement
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.In the previous post, we looked at measuring searcher behavior in order to evaluate search engine performance. Measuring searcher...
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