Geeking with Greg

Search guru Bruce Croft gave a keynote talk at CIKM 2008 titled " Unsolved Problems in Search (and how we might approach them) ". ...

Rakesh Agrawal from Microsoft Research gave a keynote talk yesterday morning at CIKM 2008 on Humane Data Mining. Much of the talk was on ...

Yahoo Chief Scientist Jan Pedersen recently wrote a short position paper, "Making Sense of Search Result Pages" ( PDF ), that has ...

Bill Zeller and Ed Felten have an interesting paper, "Cross-Site Request Forgeries: Exploitation and Prevention" ( PDF ), that loo...

Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall at the Financial Times write : A wave of job losses has started to spread across California’s Silicon Valle...

A paper at WebKDD 2008, "Exploring the Impact of Profile Injection Attacks in Social Tagging Systems" ( PDF ), by Maryam Ramezani,...

In a post by David Sarno at the LA Times, David describes Digg CEO Jay Adelson as using their new $28.7M round of funding to push "a r...

I will be attending CIKM 2008 in Napa next week. The conference looks quite interesting, especially the Industry Event with its impressiv...

Jason Auerback, Joel Galenson, and Mukund Sundararajan from Stanford had a paper at AdKDD 2008, "An Empirical Analysis of Return on Inv...

Googler Bryan Horling recently was on a panel with Danny Sullivan at SMX and talked about personalized search. A few people ( [1] [2] [3]...

Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land posts an insightful review of SearchPerks, Microsoft's new incentive program for Live Search, that...

Google Fellow Jeff Dean gave a fun talk last week at University of Washington Computer Science titled " Research Challenges Inspired by...

Luis Von Ahn and Laura Dabbish have an article in the August 2008 CACM on " Designing Games with a Purpose ". The paper has a nice...

In a post titled " Ad Perfect ", Googler Susan Wojcicki describes targeting ads as matching a deep understanding of a user's i...

The Large Scale Recommender Systems and the Netflix Prize workshop was recently held at KDD 2008. I was not able to attend, but I still wan...

Michael Schwarz from Yahoo Research gave an invited talk at KDD 2008 on "Internet Advertising and Optimal Auction Design". Much of...

A panel at KDD 2008 called " Social Networks: Looking Ahead " was more remarkable for the questions it failed to answer than the o...

Jitendra Malik from UC Berkeley gave an enjoyable and often quite amusing invited talk at KDD 2008 on "The Future of Image Search...

Daniel Abadi, Samuel Madden, and Nabil Hachem had a paper at SIGMOD 2008, "Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?...

I'll be at KDD 2008 next week. If you make it there, please say hello!