From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
In 1984, Robin Williams starred in Moscow on the Hudson as a Russian saxophonist who decides to defect from the USSR during a shopping trip to a New York department...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 21, 2020 at 09:01 AM
When we design search applications, we aspire to make the user experience frictionless. A search engine should “just work”, enabling searchers to easily express...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 10, 2020 at 03:50 PM
Thanks. And sorry that slide was cryptically brief. What I mean is that spelling correction should not restrict itself to correcting each token separately. Many...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 28, 2020 at 12:07 PM
In this case, I’m imagining that the only match of the string “black” against one of the attributes is for the “color” attribute. If the string matches multiple...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 27, 2020 at 06:20 PM
The typical integration approach I’ve seen is to use a separate query rewriting service that then either filter the Solr query to the preferred categories / attributes...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 27, 2020 at 06:18 PM
If the results for two queries expressing the same intent are similar, then they should map to similar vectors. If not, then it’s more complicated. You might still...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 14, 2020 at 11:43 AM
Indeed, the devil is in the details, But I can tell you that I’ve successfully used this idea to drive lift for my clients, and I recommend exploring it.Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 13, 2020 at 03:51 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 13, 2020 at 02:34 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 10, 2020 at 01:23 PM
Mapping Search Queries To Search IntentsEvaluating and improving search experience starts with analyzing the queries searchers are making. But search queries are...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 10, 2020 at 09:01 AM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 27, 2020 at 01:07 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 20, 2020 at 09:01 AM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 25, 2020 at 07:45 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 24, 2020 at 09:01 AM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 3, 2020 at 09:01 AM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 25, 2019 at 09:01 AM
Delivering effective search starts with defining how to measure effectiveness.The information retrieval community has been evaluating search for decades. Established...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 19, 2019 at 10:04 AM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 14, 2019 at 10:44 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 22, 2019 at 01:09 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 18, 2019 at 01:46 PM