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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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As I suggested in the post, you can use the embeddings of result titles for the results searchers…
As I suggested in the post, you can use the embeddings of result titles for the results searchers engage with when they perform the query. I realize that the devil...
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I’ve written a few posts that at least touch on voice interfaces:
I’ve written a few posts that at least touch on voice interfaces: Query Understanding and Voice Interfaces Why Voice isn’t Selling…Yet Query Understanding and Chatbots...
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Search Queries and Search Intent
Mapping Search Queries To Search IntentsEvaluating and improving search experience starts with analyzing the queries searchers are making. But search queries are...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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You already see it on Amazon.
You already see it on Amazon. Do a search for “matrix”: not only do you only see Keanu Reeves movie results on the first page, but the left rail focuses on movies...
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Search: Intent, Not Inventory
When I enter a physical store, my intent is “I want to buy X” or “I’m looking for something in order to do X.” It’s not “Show me the products that satisfy characteristics...
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Dances with HiPPOs
Decision making, especially at technology companies, is supposed to be data-driven. Unfortunately, even in this wondrous age of science, decisions often depends...
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Martin, thanks for the kind words.
Martin, thanks for the kind words. The TunkRank that Jason Adams implemented has been down for a while. I’m not aware of any other implementation that is available...
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I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers:
I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers: Passage retrieval in legal texts [PDF] Passage Retrieval Starting from Patent Claims A Clef-Ip 2013...
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I can only offer high-level guidance in a comment thread.
I can only offer high-level guidance in a comment thread. But it sounds like you might benefit from collecting trigrams as well as bigrams. If mug tree stands are...
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