Geeking with Greg

When I was at Amazon, I was a strong believer in the idea of launching early and often. In our group, new features typically launched in we...

Steve Lohr at the NYT reports on Microsoft's plans for search, integration into the desktop and Office applications: Internet search, a...

Startups have to do a fair amount of legal goo. Finding a good lawyer is important not just for legal advice, but also business advice and ...

I like this " Ask Skeptic's Mom " series on the Dead 2.0 blog .

When I started Findory, I was extremely sensitive to burn, probably too sensitive. Maybe having witnessed all the dot com flameouts caused ...

What is the problem at Yahoo and MSN? After four years of trying, they just seem to be slipping further and further behind. First, MSN show...

For the first post, I wanted to talk a bit about how I was motivated to start Findory . The fundamental idea behind Findory is to apply pers...

Jade Chang at Metropolis Magazine has a fun article on the work environment at Google. An excerpt: Corin Anderson does not work like most ...

Noam Cohen at the NYT reports : When does new news become old news? In the case of a news article on the Internet, the answer is surprisingl...

I lot of people seemed to enjoy my " Early Amazon " series of posts where I told stories about my early days at Amazon.com. I thou...

An article in the July 2006 IEEE Spectrum, " Metcalfe's Law is Wrong ", convincingly argues that the value of a social network...

Update : My post is wrong, including the title. The first author of the paper, Eugene, contacted me to let me know I had misinterpreted the...

The World Wide Web is an enormous pool of community-generated content. People everywhere and anywhere can write a web page and add it to th...

The BBC recently ran a contest to redesign the BBC home page. Many of the entries feature implicit personalization. For example, the desig...

The Hadoop open source project is building a clone of the powerful Google cluster tools Google File System and MapReduce . I was curious t...

David Carr at Baseline Magazine wrote a long article on Google called " How Google Works ". It is an interesting summary that link...

I have posted graphs of the traffic for Findory.com every quarter for the last couple years ( [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] ). As you can s...

In a BBC article by Darren Waters, Google Engineering VP Douglas Merrill says of web spam: "Spam is an arms race," said Mr Merril...

Saul Hansell and John Markoff at the NYT look at Google's cluster. Some excerpts: "Google is as much about infrastructure as it i...

I consider myself very fortunate to be on the panel at the Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web workshop at SIGIR on August 10. Ot...