Geeking with Greg

It is hard to tell from the limited documentation available, but the Pig project at Yahoo Research seems to have a lot in common with Sawza...

I enjoyed this Google Tech Talk by MSR post-doc Nicole Immorlica, " Challenges in the Design of Sponsored Search Auctions ". The t...

Matthew Hurst pointed to a talk by Yahoo Researcher Prabhakar Raghavan on "The changing face of web search" ( PDF ). The talk co...

Paul Lamere recently mentioned a project at Sun Labs called " MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace ". Paul describes it as "Se...

Gord Hotchkiss, a columnist at the popular Search Engine Land, posts some thoughts on Google Web History and Google's aggressive moves...

Security guru Ed Felten writes about the efforts to redesign and rebuild the internet: It's folly to think we can or should actually sc...

A fun Google Tech Talk, " Dasher: information-efficient text entry ", presents an interesting alternative method of text entry to ...

Just as StumbleUpon (a popular toolbar that recommends web pages) is rumored to have been acquired by eBay (congrats, Garrett!), Google pe...

It appears that Microsoft is working on a clone of Google's BigTable codenamed Blue/CloudDB. Mary Jo Foley reports that "CloudDB ...

It is being widely reported that Google is acquiring DoubleClick for $3.1B. Reaction to this announcement has been interesting. Microsoft...

Right after Microsoft acquired TellMe, Google Labs has launched a local search using voice recognition at 1-800-GOOG-411 . In my tests, Goo...

Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land reports that Ask.com is attempting to integrate an expanded version of DirectHit's clickstream ana...

Findory has a few paragraphs in an article in the Wall Street Journal today, " When a Tech Start-Up's Dreams Turn Prosaic " (...

There has been a flurry of long posts on papers and lectures here in the last week. It might have been a bit overwhelming. I would not be ...

Googler Marius Pasca is first author on a couple recent papers on knowledge extraction from the Web. "Organizing and Searching the Worl...

A study in CACM, " The effects of online advertising ", has data on what many have argued for some time, that pop-up and pop-under...

It may have been the cute title that attracted me to this paper, "A funny thing happened on the way to a billion..." ( PS ), but i...

Cliff Click gave an interesting Google engEdu talk on an implementation of " A Lock-Free Hash Table " for multiprocessor systems w...

Paul Tyma has a fun and detailed post describing the architecture behind Mailinator, a service that provides temporary e-mail addresses. [F...

An interesting story on TechDirt about how Amazon-owned Alexa took many of the good UI ideas developed by a site called Alexaholic (that wa...