Popular search engines (GYM: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) help consumers find home pages or web pages very fast using keyword based indexing that brings all pages relevant to those keywords and presented in order of their relevance. A major factor in…
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Data in Motion
International Conference on Data Engineering started this morning in Atlanta. The first Keynote talk was by Stuart Feldman from IBM on “The Joys and Challenges of Masses of Moving Data” in which he emphasized the changing nature of data in…
Blinkx introduces Implicit Search
Blinkx has introduced implicit search on their site — called Pico — that can be downloaded for free. An interesting concept. Visit here to know more about it..
Microsoft Search Lab
Microsoft is starting a new major lab in the bay area (in Muntain View) called Microsoft Search Lab. It appears that they are aggressively recruiting researchers for the lab. I know a well known database researcher who is moving from…
Review of Video Search on the Web
Mossberg has a review of video search on the Web. According to AccuStream iMedia Research, about 18 billion video streams were online in 2005 and that number is expected to grow by more than 30% in 2006. … The technology…