• Oracle Google: An Interesting View

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:20:12
    I read “My attitude on Oracle v Google.” I was confused. The “inside baseball” write up references folks by their first name. There is, therefore, some ambiguity, which in legal matters is often a quite effective rhetorical technique. I noted this passage: Just because Sun didn’t have patent suits in our genetic code doesn’t mean [...]

  • Inteltrax: Top Stories, April 23 to April 27

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:56:41
    Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, problems in the data analytics world and how they are overcome. “The Trouble with Big Data and Social Media” took a look at the overwhelming glut of info brought on by social media and how analytics [...]

  • Yes, Marketing! 2011 Marked by Record Breaking Ad Sales

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:16:33
    Taume.com recently reported on stunning internet ad revenues that could be one explantation for the increased tension between Facebook and Google in the article “Internet Ad Revenues Hit $31 Billion in 2011, Historic High Up 22% Over 2010 Record-Breaking Numbers.” According to the 2011 Internet Advertising Revenue Report, (IAB) revenues have reached record highs of [...]

  • Brin Plays Defense: Competitors Relieved or Subject to Revisionism??

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:14:23
    The Inquirer recently posted an interesting item about Google’s Sergey Brin explaining comments he previously made about certain competitors in the article “Sergey Brin Explains ‘Internet Enemies Comments”  According to the article, Brin thought that his comments were taken out of context. Also since the previous article was a short summary of a long discussion, his [...]

  • Samir Batla Discusses Cloud Based Content Analytics

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:12:36
    Text Analytics News recently shared an interesting podcast on their site called “Employ the Cloud for Efficient Content Analytics” as part of their text analytics podcast series leading up to the upcoming text mining conference scheduled for June 12 through 13 in Boston. In part three of the series Samir Batla, the Principal Product Manager [...]

  • Prepare Your Organization for SharePoint 2013

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:11:10
    SharePoint users are hotly anticipating the release of SharePoint 2013.  Will the changes be large or small?  How will it affect an organization’s existing infrastructure?  Market Watch turns hypothesis into practical action, discussing the upcoming release and also preparations that you can take now to prepare your organization.  Read the full report in, “Eight Ways [...]

  • PLM Gives Innovation Wings

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:09:21
    As the many benefit of a customized product lifecycle management (PLM) solution is circulating throughout industries many are finding that despite their initial belief that PLM was for CAD based enterprises only, PLM can in reality be applied to almost any business application to cut costs, streamline processes and speed up production.  A recent blog [...]

  • eDiscovery Costs are Frustrating

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:04:28
    Here is a not-so-surprising revelation recently reported by Inside Counsel: most users are frustrated with the cost of eDiscovery. The article, “New Study Says Cost is Most Frustrating Factor in eDiscovery,” reveals the results of a survey by consulting company FTI Technology. The survey covered ways to streamline and reduce the cost of eDiscovery. The [...]

  • The Open Source Search Ostriches

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:02:56
    ArnoldIT, located in Harrod’s Creek, Kentucky, has spotted a new species of search, content processing, and text mining vendor: The Scrutans Struthioniformes. Believed to be related to the ratites, this new subspecies is known to be indifferent to ignorant of the predator from the open source jungle. The proprietary search vendor, Scrutans Struthioniformes, ignores the [...]

  • Feds End Contract with Oracle

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:02:02
    Oracle has taken a big hit recently, when the Feds decided to pull the trigger on nixing Oracle contracts. This hit will cost Oracle dearly. According to the article on ZDNet, “Feds Nix Oracle Blanket Contract,” the government is reported to have spent $388 million with Oracle last year. While the loss may seem like [...]

  • Microsoft Research Site Down

    Updated: 2012-04-28 06:01:40

  • The Impact of Memory Subsystem Resource Sharing on Datacenter Applications

    Updated: 2012-04-13 13:54:15
    Search Search Google : Research Home About us Research Blog Publications Video University Relations Work at Google Other Google resources Google Code Google Scholar Follow us on Twitter The Impact of Memory Subsystem Resource Sharing on Datacenter Applications Abstract In this paper we study the impact of sharing memory resources on five Google datacenter applications : a web search engine , bigtable , content analyzer , image stitching , and protocol buffer . While prior work has found neither positive nor negative effects from cache sharing across the PARSEC benchmark suite , we find that across these datacenter applications , there is both a sizable benefit and a potential degradation from improperly sharing resources . In this paper , we first present a study of the importance of

  • Query Rewriting in Search Engines Hugh E Williams

    Updated: 2012-04-13 13:54:00
    . Hugh E . Williams Skip to content Home Contact Bio Speaking Disclaimer Hiring Engineers Compression , Speed , and Search Engines March 19, 2012 4:55 pm Jump to Comments Query Rewriting in Search Engines There†s countless information on search ranking – creating ranking functions and their factors such as PageRank  and  text Query rewriting is less conspicuous but equally important . Our experience at eBay is that query rewriting has the potential to deliver as much improvement to search as core ranking , and that†s what I†ve seen and heard at other . companies What is query rewriting Let†s start with an example . Suppose a user queries for Gucci handbags at eBay . If we take this literally , the results will be those that have the words Gucci and handbags somewhere in the

  • Email Post to a Friend

    Updated: 2012-04-12 16:17:37
    Email Post to a : Friend Jeff's Search Engine Caffè The information you provide on this form will not be used for anything other than sending the email to your friend . This feature is not to be used for advertising or excessive . self-promotion Your Name Required Your Email Address Required Friend's Email Address Enter a comma-separated list of up to 10 email . addresses Required Remember Me Saves your name and email address on this computer Message Maximum 300 characters Please prove you're not a robot Type the two : words Type the words you : hear Get a new challenge Get an audio challenge Get a visual challenge Help Type the characters you see in the . picture Amazon CloudSearch , Elastic Search as a Service The search division of Amazon , A9 today announced the release of CloudSearch

  • Lumia Review Cluster

    Updated: 2012-04-08 15:25:44
    Briefly, track // microsoft (a buzz tracking site for Microsoft that I'm experimenting with) is currently sporting a large story cluster focused on the reviews for the new (today!) Nokia Lumia 900. [note - I updated this image due to...

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