There is something that connects us with people who have gone through similar experiences. People like to hear experiences of others in similar situation, before, during, and after they go through it. I remember reading Lance ArmstrongĄ¯s book and loving it because it gave me an idea of what I may be going through. I [...]
Current search techniques make almost no use of context. That is surprising from a userĄ¯s perspective but is not very surprising from search engine designerĄ¯s perspective. Most of us suffer from trying to use and refine what we already know. Search engine experts are very good in preparing databases on keywords and then refining them [...]
We will discuss some key issues that make current search limited. My goal is to explore how some of these limitations can be removed to make the next generation search significantly more efficient and effective. Today I will discuss use of frequency of occurrence of words as the major deciding factor in the relevance of [...]
Maybe I am in the cycle of – I donĄ¯t have energy so I donĄ¯t do much, I donĄ¯t do much so I donĄ¯t need to change things much – and this must be changed. The only way to change is to start taking some responsibilities and start doing things. This will push me to [...]
Current search approaches used in all search engines evolved from information retrieval. Information retrieval research was to look at the text documents and develop powerful indexing techniques so one could find where the information related to a key word is in the document. Most mature information retrieval techniques utilize statistical distribution of words in a [...]