Geeking with Greg

It looks like we have a Microsoft-Yahoo deal . If you smack two amorous giants together enough times, I guess you are going to get a love c...

Greg Sterling has some good thoughts on why Facebook and Google are not in competition: Currently the use cases for Facebook and for search...

Recently, Chris O'Brien at the San Jose Mercury News wrote : It's getting harder every day to articulate what Google is. Is it a Web...

The best paper award at the recent KDD 2009 conference went to Yehuda Koren's "Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics"...

At the recent Ad Auctions Workshop , I had a paper ( PDF ) and talk ( PDF ) that argued for discounting relevant advertisements more than we...

Googler Jake Brutlag recently published a short study, "Speed Matters for Google Web Search" ( PDF ), which looked at how importan...

An ensemble of methods from four teams has passed the criteria to win the Netflix Prize . Other teams have 30 days to beat it, but, no matt...

In an amusingly titled WWW 2009 paper, "Computers and iPhones and Mobile Phones, oh my!" ( PDF ), a quartet of Googlers offer some...

A paper out of Microsoft Research, "A Data Structure for Sponsored Search" ( PDF ), has a couple simple but effective optimization...

At a time when many of us are working with thousands of machines, Paul Tyma provides a remarkable example of how much you can do with just ...

An article at the upcoming UMAP 2009 conference, "I like it... I like it not: Evaluating User Ratings Noise in Recommender Systems...

Robert Bell, Jim Bennett, Yehuda Koren, and Chris Volinsky have an article in the May 2008 IEEE Spectrum, " The Million Dollar Programm...

Over at the blog of the Communications of the ACM, I have a new post on " The Siren Song of Startups ". The article tries to get...

Interesting tidbit on personalization in a Q&A with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: Yahoo! is the place where millions of people come every day ...

Danny Sullivan has a couple great posts ([ 1 ] [ 2 ]) on Microsoft renaming its search engine to Bing , the new features and improvements in...

In " Google Kills a Sacred Cow ", Anders Bylund at the Motley Fool has an interesting take on Google's decision to show adver...

For a while, I have been planning on writing a post comparing large scale clusters with the mainframes of yore, a piece that would be full o...

An important WWW 2009 paper out of MSR Asia, "How much can Behavioral Targeting Help Online Advertising?" ( PDF ), looks at how mu...

Googlers Rich Gossweiler, Maryam Kamvar, and Shumeet Baluja had a fun paper at WWW 2009, "What's Up CAPTCHA? A CAPTCHA Based On Ima...

It is being widely reported ([ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]) that Microsoft did another large round of layoffs today. Microsoft never has don...