Stephen E. Arnold: Seismic Shift in Learning from Reading to Video — Implications for Search and More… PBI Push Books versus Pull Video!

Why Video Is Booming I read “The Average College Freshman Reads at 7th Grade Level.” I find this fascinating. No wonder folks are baffled when it comes to framing a query using Boolean logic. Little wonder that youthful search “experts” are clueless about the antics of search vendors from the 1980s. These folks cannot and …

Stephen E. Arnold: Bots Breaking Bad

Bots are starting to break the law and nobody knows what to do about it Daniel Rivero, FusionNet “What seems more and more clear is that issues like these will go from hypotheticals, to art installations, to everyday facts of life,” he said. “And I have to wonder how ready we are.”

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Search with Visualization

Searchblox Announces New Visualization Method for Search Results The brief article on Searchblox titled A Visualization Is Worth a Thousand Search Results relates the addition of visualization to the Elasticsearch-based system, Searchblox. Searchblox is an open source enterprise content search engine founded in 2003. Its customers range over 25 countries and include Harley Davidson, Capital …

Stephen E. Arnold: Bottlenose — Hype without Limit?

Bottlenose: Not a Dolphin, Another Intelligence Vendor EXTRACT The reality of many commercial services, which may or may not apply to Bottlenose, is that: The systems use information on RSS feeds, the public information available from Twitter and Facebook, and changes to Web pages. These systems do not and cannot due to the cost  perform …

Stephen E. Arnold: A Balanced View of “Artificial Intelligence” — Elementary, Not a Threat — Most, Including Factiva, Have Missed the Boat…

Artificial Intelligence: Duh? What? I have been following the “AI will kill us”, the landscape of machine intelligence craziness, and “Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat—Yet.” The most recent big thinking on this subject appears in the Wall Street Journal, an organization in need of any type of intelligence: Machine, managerial, fiscal, online, and sci-fi. Harsh? …