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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 …
From My Biased Coin
CATCS Visioning Workshop
Reposting an important call -- these events have had big impact in the past! The CATCS will be hosting a virtual “Visioning Workshop” the week of July 20 in order...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Now Available: Country-Based Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of Email Addresses in 2020
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published a new country-based evaluation of email acceptance rates based upon previous testing of the top 1,000...
From The Noisy Channel
MMM, Search!
This morning, I had the pleasure of being hosted by Grant Ingersoll to talk about search with his team at the Wikimedia Foundation.Wikipedia is an indispensable...
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Opportunity Analysis for Search
I’m a big fan of opportunity analysis. I’ve seen far too many organizations underinvest in opportunity analysis and thus waste enormous — and avoidable — effort...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Task Force on Arabic script IDNs
In our 2014 World Report on IDNs, we reported on the work of ICANN’s Task Force on Arabic script IDNs, an initiative of the Middle East Strategy Working Group.Task...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New Resource for Developers! Introducing the Universal Acceptance Readiness Framework
By Dennis Tan Tanaka, Vice Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Universal Acceptance (UA) is the simple concept that all domain names and all...
From The Noisy Channel
Thank you for the kind words!
Thank you for the kind words!If I follow you, then you are pointing out that, by generating revenue through promoted search, a business can funnel that revenue...
From The Noisy Channel
Promoted Search: A Follow-Up
My post on promoted search results drew some pointed feedback. People asked me what kind of promoted search behavior I deem acceptable, as well as whether I saw...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
#Internet4All around the Globe in 2019: A Recap of UA Ambassador Work
By Dušan Stojičević, Vice Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) 2019 was a busy and productive year for the UASG as we worked to spread awareness...
From The Noisy Channel
Thoughts on Promoted Search Results
I’m not a fan of ads. So you might expect me to be violently opposed to promoted search results — search engine results that are optimized for something other than...
From My Biased Coin
Current CS 124 Stats
This is as much personal recording for me (and perhaps of interest to Harvard people who read the blog). But also putting the numbers here for others to know for...
From My Biased Coin
ITCS 2020, Reflections
I've spent Sunday/Monday at ITCS, or Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, where I am giving a talk on this paper on Scheduling with Prediction and the Price...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Universal Acceptance Continues Momentum During ICANN66
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus I am invigorated after returning from ICANN66, which took place in Montréal 2-7 November. Always...
From The Noisy Channel
When There’s No Conversion Rate
If your business depends on search, it’s critical to track search effectiveness using an evaluation methodology. In my experience, most organizations rely on implicit...
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Measuring Search Effectiveness
Delivering effective search starts with defining how to measure effectiveness.The information retrieval community has been evaluating search for decades. Established...
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Defining relevance is a topic in its own right.
Defining relevance is a topic in its own right. You typically collect either explicit human judgments or implicit judgements from behavior, and then you use those...
From My Biased Coin
Allston : Students Should Speak Up
I have had (as is pretty usual for me) some number of lunches with students this semester, and many of them asked me about the Computer Science move to Allston....
From The Noisy Channel
Supporting the Searcher’s Journey: When and How
Sometimes, search is simple. The searcher types a few words into the search box, retrieves a ranked list of results, and selects the right one. Easy peasy.Other...
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I think the even more interesting case for using supply or demand is where supply vastly outstrips…
I think the even more interesting case for using supply or demand is where supply vastly outstrips demand and most intents are in the tail, e.g., searching through...
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