Geeking with Greg

Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently: Googler and AI guru Peter Norvig on what artificial intelligence has ...

A small pile of Googlers recently presented a paper, "Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services...

I suppose I should comment, as everyone else on the planet has, on Google's claim that Bing is copying their results. My reaction is mo...

In a paper at the recent RecSys 2010 conference, "The YouTube Video Recommendation System" ( ACM ), eleven Googlers describe the s...

A few things that have caught my attention lately: Google generates $24 per user, Yahoo $8, and Facebook $4. ( [1] ) Paul Graham's most ...

Papers that reveal details of Google's internal systems are always fun. At KDD 2010 a few months ago, four Googlers presented "Ove...

Googlers have published two papers recently at academic conferences detailing new specialized databases that are heavily used within Google....

It is being widely reported that Google is bidding as much as $6B for Groupon. From an article in the New York Times: Google has offered G...

Google Fellow Jeff Dean gave a talk at Stanford for the EE380 class with fascinating details on Google's systems and infrastructure. Kr...

Felix Salmon on why paywalls fail : It’s not just that readers don’t see the value in paying for content when something “similar” can be fou...

I've been active microblogging on Google Reader lately. Here's a summary of some of the topics that have caught my attention recen...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks up automatic search from mobile devices: Ultimately, search is not just the web but literally all of your inf...

Over at Mini-Microsoft, Microsoft employees are listing the details of their compensation changes after their performance reviews. Reading...

Cuil is dead : Cuil, the much maligned search engine that at one time had hopes of toppling Google, has gone offline ... It may be done for ...

Googler Tushar Chandra recently gave a talk at the LADIS 2010 workshop on "Sibyl: A system for large scale machine learning" (slid...

A recent article from Microsoft in IEEE Computing, "Server Engineering Insights for Large-Scale Online Services" ( PDF ), has surp...

Miguel Helft and Tanzina Vega at the New York Times have a front page article today, " Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites ...

A few Googlers recently published a paper with a terribly dull title, "Evaluating Online Ad Campaigns in a Pipeline: Causal Models at S...

NYU Professor Panos Ipeirotis has an insightful post, " Mechanical Turk, Low Wages, and the Market for Lemons ", that looks at why...

It has been widely reported that Google News has done a major redesign -- its first since 2002 apparently -- to more prominently feature pe...