Greg Notess said something that caught my interest about searchers using more than one search engine. He told a story about how he had an email address but wanted to know the name of the person to whom it belonged.…

The exhibit hall this year was snoozeville. There were no start-ups, no cool technologies being shown off. Just database providers. Don’t get me wrong, database providers are appropriate for this conference, but nonetheless some variety would’ve been nice. And I…

Notes from Chris Sherman regarding social search. The web itself, as created by Tim Berners-Lee, and early things on the web, like the Yahoo! directory, are examples of social search. Links and directories involve human-recommendation systems. HTML meta-tags were another…

Chris Sherman discussed search. Notes: Ask – increasing R & D budget. Goal of being #2 but with a dedicated following. Think of Apple’s computers. Google – company ranks top 100 projects using some kind of cool ranking algorithm (not…

I spent yesterday in Monterey with a thousand internet librarians. I was disappointed with the day. Why? 1. Duplicatation – I attended a few talks about search and there was too much duplication of content in the talks. I don’t…