Geeking with Greg

A googol of Googlers published a paper at VLDB 2008, "Google's Deep-Web Crawl" ( PDF ), that describes how Google pokes and pr...

My father, Theodore Linden, died on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, a few months after being diagnosed with brain cancer. My father valued reason...

Alex Chitu describes an experimental feature currently in A/B testing on Google where searchers can add "a list of sites you want to a...

In January of 2008, I laid out my prediction for what would happen in the rest of the year. Unfortunately, it turns out to be largely corr...

A fun paper out of Yahoo Research, "Dr. Searcher and Mr. Browser: A Unified Hyperlink-Click Graph" ( PDF ), looks at the value of ...

Danny Sullivan wrote up a version of a talk he gave at Microsoft in June 2008 in his recent post, " Tough Love for Microsoft Search ...

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels posted an copy of his recent ACM Queue article, " Eventually Consistent - Revisited ". It is a nice over...

Googler Michal Zalewski wrote a " Browser Security Handbook " with a detailed look at many of the security issues in current brows...

Om Malik writes that: Yahoo ... is planning to .... launch in beta relatively soon with half a dozen small applications running in a sideb...

Deepak Agarwal along with many others from Yahoo Research have a paper at the upcoming NIPS 2008 conference, " Online Models for Conten...

There has been more talk lately, it seems to me, on moving away from stateless search where each search is independent and toward a search e...

You have to love research work that takes some absurdly simple idea and shows that it works much better than anyone would have guessed. Stev...

Googlers Diane Lambert and Daryl Pregibon had a paper at AdKDD 2008, "Online Effects of Offline Ads" ( PDF ), with a fun look at h...

Andrei Broder and a large crew from Yahoo Research had a paper at CIKM 2008, "To Swing or not to Swing: Learning when (not) to Advertis...

Baidu Chief Scientist William Chang gave an industry day talk at CIKM 2008 on the next generation of search where he predicted an industry-...

In two insightful posts, " The Omnigoogle " and " The cloud's Chrome lining ", Nick Carr cleanly summarizes how Goog...

Filip Radlinski, Madhu Kurup, and Thorsten Joachims had a paper at CIKM 2008, "How Does Clickthrough Data Reflect Retrieval Quality?...

Philipp Lenssen points to a video of a DEMOfall08 panel on "Where the Web is Going" that included Peter Norvig from Google and Pr...

Yahoo Fellow, VP, and computational advertising guru Andrei Broder gave a talk at CIKM 2008 on "The Evolving Computational Advertising...

Googler Peter Norvig gave a talk at industry day at CIKM 2008 that, despite my fascination with all things Peter Norvig, almost frightened ...