Geeking with Greg

I have been playing with Wallop , a social networking startup spun out of Microsoft Research, for a couple days now. So far, I am underwhel...

I really enjoyed this " WebSpam " (link is correct, talk is mislabeled on Google Video) talk by Marc Najork from Microsoft Researc...

There are some great data points on the potential of personalized web search in a KDD 2006 paper, " A Large-Scale Analysis of Query Log...

Googler Steve Yegge has some interesting tidbits on Google's management buried in one of his posts . Some extended excerpts: Google...

John Battelle interviews Googler Matt Cutts. Some interesting excerpts from Matt on algorithms based on user data: When savvy people think...

Findory recently launched a new version of our personalized advertising engine. This new version is based on Amazon Associates rather tha...

Google apparently has decided to retire its metashopping search, Froogle . From an article by Ben Charny at Marketwatch: Google intends to...

Eric Goldman has an interesting article in InformIT that talks about personalization and its coming impact on search. Some excerpts: Curre...

This "Social Phishing" paper ( PDF ) that will appear in an upcoming issue of Communications of the ACM is frightening. It descri...

If you enjoyed the Google Bigtable , Chubby , and GFS papers, you might also enjoy a recent paper out of Microsoft Research, " Boxwood...

Lawrence Kai Shih and David Karger at MIT wrote an interesting WWW2004 paper, " Using URLs and Table Layout for Web Classification Task...

Yahoo PM Matt McAlister posts some thoughts on the mainstream and the effort involved with tagging. Some excerpts: My mother will never or...

Danny Sullivan has a good post, " Why Search Sucks & You Won't Fix It The Way You Think ", that looks at the lack of innov...

Microsoft recently launched a YouTube-clone called MSN Soapbox . Pretty much everything I thought about saying about this has already been s...

Google has released a new OSDI 2006 paper, " The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems ". From the paper: Ch...

Robin Harris points out a paper, "Advanced Tools for Operators at Amazon.com" ( PDF ), that talks about tracking and diagnosing f...

Mark Cuban nails it in his post, " The Coming Dramatic Decline of Youtube ": The fact that Youtube is building a traffic juggernau...

Rakesh Agrawal posts detailed notes on a talk by Google PM Carl Sjogreen on how Google built Google Calendar. My favorite tidbits mostly we...

In a move that cannot help but bring up memories of Pets.com, Dogster just got $1M in funding .

This is the 1000th post on Geeking with Greg. 2 1/2 years of posting, roughly 200k words in total, averaging a little more than a post a da...