Google has started a new site called SearchMash which seems to be intended to test out new UI ideas for search results. It’s AJAX-based and currently has web page and image search. Currently they show images to the right of web page results and the green URLs are clickable menus. When you click on “more web [...]

Amazon’s search engine effort called A9 has quietly dropped their unique and highly publicized features. They are no longer remembering all past search queries by logged-in users. This is odd since they could have built a great personalization feature using this information. Perhaps they are worried about privacy issues. They have also removed the street-level images [...]

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Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington have created a very impressive way of organizing and indexing unstructured photos. The system extracts distinctive features from the images that are then aligned pairwise. By using all these alignments, the original position of each camera can be estimated. It’s impressive beacuse the system does not need [...]

Nexidia is a company that specializes in audio indexing and search using phonemes. The idea is that human languages are typically using only 40-80 phonemes out of a set of about 400. Presumable the language areas of the brain is using this technique to increase the signal-to-noise ratio so that we can comprehend spoken language [...]

There is a lot of interest in social network analysis right now. A good start is orgnet.com or the somewhat awkwardly named International Network for Social Network Analysis (insna.org). A guy from Entopia has also started a blog about this at sictransittecnicamundi.blogspot.com. In relation to the previous post we can note that enterprise social network analysis, [...]

The next version of the Microsoft’s Sharepoint content management system will have a feature called Knowledge Network that automatically builds profiles of employees and their areas of expertise. This is useful since in our knowledge economy era, the important things for a company are often stored in the head of an expert employee. This is [...]

After the revelation in USA Today that the US government has been analyzing phone call records of ‘tens of millions’ of users, probably even more, experts in the area of Social Network Analysis think it probably is a waste of time. Although it was made known to the broad masses of people just today, this has [...]

It’s becoming clearer by the day that news is too important to be left to the media corporations. They show us what they would like us to learn and believe, but that is often not what really happened. With modern technology it should be easier to give this power to the people. This idea works [...]

When the US Department of Justice demanded that Google hand over search queries and other data to them, they refused. It later came out that Yahoo, Microsoft and America On Line had had no problems handing over such data from their search engines and had done so quietly. This came as a surprise to many [...]

Boris sent in a link to TechCrunch with a comparison of several blog aggregators. In addition to Memeorandum, they look at 11 other such sites.

memeorandum is a great blog aggregation site that I have been using recently. It scans thousands of blogs (2000 right now) and looks for blogs that mentions other blog postings. If there are many mentions and it’s a new item it is listed in an area called “New Item Finder” in the top-right corner of [...]

CNet has an interesting round-up of search news from the past year. Happy New Year!

Cnet writes about new technology for searching and browsing the web using pictures taken with a cell phone and sent to specific sites. The idea is to access sites without having to type in URLs using the tiny keypads. For the moment it has been used for marketing purposes but it should be possible to [...]

UK based Autonomy has bought US based Verity for $507 million in cash. They paid $13.50 per share which is a premium of 30% over Verity’s closing price the day before ($10.37). Autonomy’s founder and CEO continues as CEO in the larger company. Norwegian FAST commented that the price was too steep for a company [...]