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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI

From Schneier on Security Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration … B. Schneier | February 29, 2024

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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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 23, 2009 at 01:55 PM

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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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 22, 2009 at 02:02 PM

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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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 19, 2009 at 07:16 PM

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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:... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 18, 2009 at 06:12 PM

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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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 18, 2009 at 12:39 AM

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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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 17, 2009 at 07:15 PM

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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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 17, 2009 at 05:27 PM

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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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 16, 2009 at 07:32 PM

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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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 15, 2009 at 04:12 PM

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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”... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 15, 2009 at 03:50 AM

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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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 12, 2009 at 09:06 PM

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Google Wave or just a Blip?

Yesterday, I was fortunate to attend a presentation from a Google Engineering Director about Google Wave, an online communication and collaboration tool that Google... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 11, 2009 at 08:14 PM

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Back from Endeca Discover

I hope that regular readers forgive the recent sparsity of posts. I spent most of the last three days attending Discover, Endeca’s annual user conference. It might... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 10, 2009 at 09:45 PM

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Attending Endeca Discover

Apologies for the unusual hiatus in posting–I’ve been attending Endeca Discover (an annual user conference) and haven’t managed to allocate time for blogging. I’ll... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 9, 2009 at 03:37 PM

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Those Who Give Twitter Get Twitter

Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb wrote a post arguing that the people working at Twitter aren’t using the service the way its power users do, and that this... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 6, 2009 at 06:50 PM

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Enabling Exploration Through Text Analytics

As promised, here are my slides from the recently held Text Analytics Summit. Feel free to download them from SlideShare–some of the animation may not come through... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 5, 2009 at 04:28 PM

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Google Squared: A Great First Step

Regular readers know that I am not a Google fan boy, and that much of my commentary on Google focuses on their neglect of exploratory search. Nonetheless, when... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 4, 2009 at 04:08 AM

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Google Search Appliance Woos, But Does It Wow?

Yesterday, Google announced the latest version of its search appliance, GSA 6.0, to great fanfare. As usual, their emphasis was on scale: they’re pushing a distributed... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 3, 2009 at 01:56 PM

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Faceted Search Book: Now Available Online!

I’m delighted to report that my faceted search book is now available for online purchase at the Morgan & Claypool site! The printed version should be going out... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 2, 2009 at 05:57 PM

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Banging on Bing: A Bummer

So, Bing is out early. Yes, an early release from Microsoft! And it’s snappy, attractive, and offers decent quality. If I needed to use Bing as my main search engine... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 1, 2009 at 02:01 PM

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