Geeking with Greg

Seung-Taek Park and David Pennock from Yahoo Research had a good paper on personalized search at KDD 2007, "Applying Collaborative Filt...

Yury Lifshits gave a Google Tech talk, " Similarity Search: A Web Perspective ", surveying various algorithms for finding similar ...

In his post, " The $15 billion nonsense ", Nick Carr nails it: Extrapolating Facebook's true worth from Microsoft's invest...

Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land reports on a Kelton Research poll that found considerable frustration among search engine users and a d...

Todd Bishop at the Seattle PI writes about the branch offices Yahoo and Google have opened in Seattle. Some excerpts: Yahoo's plan to ...

Google researcher and creator of Google News Krishna Bharat just gave the keynote talk at the Recommender Systems 2007 conference. The talk...

Sun Labs researcher Paul Lamere posts a list of properties of a good music recommender system: A good recommendation has three aspects: fam...

UW CS Professor extraordinaire Ed Lazowska gave a talk recently, " Computer Science: Past, Present and Future ", that covered some...

I will be at the ACM Recommender Systems 2007 conference Oct 19-20 next week in Minneapolis. If you will be there, please say hello if you...

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announces an awesome SOSP 2007 paper he co-authored with nine other people at Amazon, "Dynamo: Amazon's H...

Computers go down, a lot more often than we might like. For most of Findory's four years, it ran on six servers. In that time, those se...

The new Office Live is out and seems to be getting widely panned. Mike Arrington says , "Microsoft has failed to understand the real p...

While I am no more a fan of the name Web 3.0 than Web 2.0, Jason Calacanis has an entertaining rant on where the Web is going: Web 3.0 thro...

Knowledge@Wharton recently published an article, " Reinforcing the Blockbuster Nature of Media: The Impact of Online Recommenders ...

Looking at Yahoo Answers again two years after its launch, I think I was wrong to think of it as a question answering website. Despite the ...

Update : The shut down of Findory has been rescheduled to occur on November 22, 2007. Update : The shut down of Findory has been postponed. ...

Rich Skrenta discusses and endorses Kosmix's KFS , an alpha-stage Google File System clone. There appear to be a few of these early st...

Analyst Henry Blodget calls Yahoo's declining Comscore numbers "an absolute disaster", says the company is a "train wrec...

[After a long break, I am returning to my " Starting Findory " series, a group of posts about my experience starting and building ...

An enjoyable WWW 2007 paper out of UC Santa Cruz, "A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia" ( PDF ), builds on a grea...