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Enabling Exploration Through Text Analytics
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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...

Google Squared: A Great First Step
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Google Search Appliance Woos, But Does It Wow?
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Faceted Search Book: Now Available Online!
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Banging on Bing: A Bummer
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Journalism Is Not Like Craigslist
From The Noisy Channel

Journalism Is Not Like Craigslist

In response to a meeting sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America about “Models to Monetize Content” (i.e., how to charge for online news), Scott Rosenberg...

Page
From The Noisy Channel

Page

I hesitate to cite Valleywag as a news source, but I did read there that Sergey Brin is crediting fellow Google co-founder Larry Page with “Page’s Law“, the assertion...

Waiting for the Big Bing
From The Noisy Channel

Waiting for the Big Bing

Everyone is talking about Bing today–well, everyone who isn’t too busy watching Google do the Wave. If you haven’t been paying attention, Microsoft is about to...

2009 Enterprise Search Sourcebook
From The Noisy Channel

2009 Enterprise Search Sourcebook

I just noticed that the 2009 edition of the Enterprise Search Sourcebook is now available. Published by Information Today, it’s a nice way to survey the landscape...

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
From The Noisy Channel

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations

Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
From The Noisy Channel

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations

Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...

NYT Appoints a
From The Noisy Channel

NYT Appoints a

What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...

NYT Appoints a
From The Noisy Channel

NYT Appoints a

What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...

News, Search Experience, and Value
From The Noisy Channel

News, Search Experience, and Value

I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m...

News, Search Experience, and Value
From The Noisy Channel

News, Search Experience, and Value

I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m...

NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
From The Noisy Channel

NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems

Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized...

NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
From The Noisy Channel

NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems

Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized...

Book. Is. Done.
From The Noisy Channel

Book. Is. Done.

I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and...

Book. Is. Done.
From The Noisy Channel

Book. Is. Done.

I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and...

Data.gov
From The Noisy Channel

Data.gov

When I first heard that Vivek Kundra was on the short list to be the CTO of the United States, I was very excited about the possibility that he would implement...
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