Geeking with Greg

Some of what has caught my attention recently: Oldest example I could find of the "PC is dead" in the press, a New York Times arti...

"Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers" ( PDF ) has some fascinating details on how Google...

In recent interviews and in his new book, "The Filter Bubble", Eli Pariser claims that personalization limits serendipity and disc...

Some very useful lessons in this work in a recent WSDM 2011 conference, "Personalizing Web Search using Long Term Browsing History...

Some of what has caught my attention recently: Apple captured "a remarkable 50% value share of estimated Q1/11 handset industry operati...

Ooo, this one is important. A clever and very fun paper, "Hyper-Local, Direction-Based Ranking of Places" ( PDF ), will be presen...

There has been a lot of news about personalization and recommendations of information in the last week. Google News launched additional imp...

Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently: Google tries again in social, this time focusing on the common trend ...

Jaime Teevan, Dan Liebling, and Gayathri Geetha from Microsoft Research had a fun paper at WSDM 2011, " Understanding and Predicting Pe...

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...