The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Search Wizards Speak: Oleg Rogynskyy, Semantria Semantria focuses on a class of problems that a few years ago would have been outside the reach of many firms. He said: We make it simple for our clients to solve the following problems: First, some organizations have too much text to read. For example, a Twitter stream …
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More to Search than Relevancy, Accuracy, Precision and Recall? Search Vendor Management: Frazzled and Scared Personal Search Engine Enters the Scene The Increasing Usages of Open Source Software
Seeing What Is in a Laundry List of Search Results In late October I will be delivering a webinar version of my lecture “What to Do When Google Doesn’t Answer Your Question.” The webinar is at this time not open to the public. My topic is that free Web search engines offer useful information. Most …
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Oracle and Open Source I will be giving my last public talk in 2013 at the upcoming Search Summit. I am revealing some data about the trajectory of commercial search versus free and open source search. My focus is not just on costs. I will address the elephant in the room that few of the …
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Time to Open Source Sentiments Here is something new from Gigaom: “Stanford Researchers To Open Source Model They Say Has Nailed Sentiment Analysis.” Richard Socher and a team from Stanford have created a computer program that can classify the sentiment of sentence with 85% accurately. They tested the model on movie reviews with a positive …
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Tablets and Periodicals October 19, 2013 Are tablets the salvation of the newspaper industry? Google’s chief economist thinks they may be. In a speech he recently gave in Milan, Hal Varian points to the ways consumers’ usage of tablets differs from that of other devices. Writer Will Conley summarizes: “Varian said tablets are the most …
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Google Generates Calls for Businesses Google bumped up its advertising services for businesses by giving them the option to add a “click-to-call” service. Search Engine Watch reports that “Google: 70% Of Mobile Searchers Call A Business Directly From Search Results (Study).” A new Google/Ipsos research says the click-to-call option increases click-through rates and brand perception. …
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