Geeking with Greg

Googlers Gagan Aggarwal, Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, and Martin Pal have an upcoming paper, " Sponsored Search Auctions with Markovi...

I was not going to post about this, but I cannot seem to get Steve Yegge's post, " Done, and Get Things Smart ", out of my hea...

Google Chief Economist Hal Varian has a post on the Official Google Blog on " How auctions set ad prices ". What is particularly i...

Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOM has an amusing post, " The 5 Stages of a Consumer Web Startup ". Some excerpts: One day an entrepren...

Google Fellow Jeff Dean gave a talk at Google I/O called " Underneath the Covers at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions ...

A new technical report out of Microsoft Research, "Some sample programs written in DryadLINQ" ( PDF ), shows off some examples of ...

Mike Masnick at TechDirt has an insightful post about how businesses should treat customer service as the face of the company, not as a cos...

A curious revelation from Googler Peter Norvig appears in a recent post by Anand Rajaraman: [To execute a web search] a subset of documents...

Giles Bowkett has an insightful point on voting schemes at sites like Digg: When you build a system where you get points for the number of ...

Google VP Marissa Mayer had a brief tidbit on personalized search at the Google I/O Conference: There will be a bigger personalization piec...

Google VP Udi Manber offers a high level description of what goes into Google's relevance rank in his recent post, " Introduction t...

James Hamilton writes about Yahoo's "over 2 petabyte repository of user click stream and context data with an update rate for 24 b...

Chris Olston, Benjamin Reed, Utkarsh Srivastava, Ravi Kumar, and Andrew Tomkins from Yahoo have an upcoming paper at SIGMOD 2008, "Pig ...

Googlers Niels Provos, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Moheeb Rajab, and Fabian Monrose have an amusingly titled 2008 tech report, "All Your iF...

[This is a continuation of the posts in my Starting Findory series describing my experiences building my first company, Findory .] I had th...

Impressive numbers from Facebook on their architecture: 1,800 MySQL servers ( 900 pairs of master/slave) holding a heavily partitioned dat...

The " Second KDD Workshop on Large-Scale Recommender Systems and the Netflix Prize Competition " will be on August 24 in Las Vegas...

Michael Schrage at MIT Technology Review writes a fun article, " Recommendation Nation: Learning to love customers like you ". Som...

The best paper award at WWW 2008 went to a paper on large-scale crawling titled "IRLbot: Scaling to 6 Billion Pages and Beyond" ( ...

A paper at WWW 2008, "Spatial Variation in Search Engine Queries" ( PDF ), by Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, and Jasmi...