Really cool way to visualize the scale happening on the Yahoo front page:
Web search engine query language – what’s it called?
I have a question:
Natural language search is: what is the population of Portland?
Boolean search is: salt AND pepper
So what do we call the sort of “regular” syntax that web search engines have made so popular and common as a way to query for information?
Watson is just a super search engine
Not like I’m so smart or anything since I’m sure lots of people thought the same thing, but the first thing that went through my mind when I heard about Watson was that it was a search engine disguised as a Jeopardy contestant.
Watson is just a super search engine.
If you’ve ever wondered what search quality/editorial/analysis people like me do at search engines, a big part of our jobs is training and evaluating machine-learning systems like Watson.
Bloglines is closing
I just saw that Ask.com is officially closing Bloglines. Read more here: Bloglines Update. I’m sorry to hear it. I’ve been using Bloglines for 5 or 6 years. The first couple years I checked it obsessively for new articles about search and other interests. Now I check in much less frequently, maybe a couple times a month. But it’s still a good place to catch up on articles that where timeliness is not so important. I’ll have to decide whether to find a new RSS reader. Or not.
Bing’s Visual Search
Bing is playing around with some new visual search functionality. Check it out here: Bing Visual Search.
Have a look here at US Presidents. I like the layout – it’s clean and easy to see a lot of images at once. It’s cool how you can mouse over each thumb and the search box automatically populates; and under the search box there is a bit of structured data about each President. However, it’s not so easy to navigate through all the images if you’re looking for something in particular, especially if you look at something with a whole bunch of things like dog breeds.