http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/08/13/more-search-without-search/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/08/13/more-search-without-search/comment-page-1/#comment-20272 The Future of Search? It’s Here and Disappointing : Beyond Search Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:45:39 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=1359#comment-20272 [...] AltSearchEngines.com–an excellent Web log and information retrieval news source–tapped the addled goose (me, Stephen E. Arnold) for some thoughts about the future of search. I’m no wizard, being an a befuddled flow, but I did offer several hundred words on the subject. I even contributed one of my semi-famous “layers” diagrams. These are important because each layer represents a slathering of computational crunching. The result is an incremental boost to the the underlying search system’s precision, recall, interface outputs, and overall utility of the system. The downside is that as the layers pile up so does complexity and its girl friend costs. You can read the full essay and look at the diagram here. A happy quack to the AltSearchEngines.com team for [a] asking me to contribute an essay and [b] having the moxie to publish the goose feathers I generate. The message in my essay is no laughing matter. The future of search is here and in many ways, it is deeply disappointing and increasingly troubling to me. For an example, click here. [...] [...] AltSearchEngines.com–an excellent Web log and information retrieval news source–tapped the addled goose (me, Stephen E. Arnold) for some thoughts about the future of search. I’m no wizard, being an a befuddled flow, but I did offer several hundred words on the subject. I even contributed one of my semi-famous “layers” diagrams. These are important because each layer represents a slathering of computational crunching. The result is an incremental boost to the the underlying search system’s precision, recall, interface outputs, and overall utility of the system. The downside is that as the layers pile up so does complexity and its girl friend costs. You can read the full essay and look at the diagram here. A happy quack to the AltSearchEngines.com team for [a] asking me to contribute an essay and [b] having the moxie to publish the goose feathers I generate. The message in my essay is no laughing matter. The future of search is here and in many ways, it is deeply disappointing and increasingly troubling to me. For an example, click here. [...]

]]> http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/08/13/more-search-without-search/comment-page-1/#comment-20253 More Search without Search | Easycoded Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:15:12 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=1359#comment-20253 [...] ScottGu Google wizard Stephen R. Lawrence and sub-wizard Omar Khan invented a what I probably too simplistically characterize as meta-data vacuum cleaner. Useful for mobile devices, this addition to Google’s “search without search” arsenal is quite interesting to me. The invention is disclosed in US7,412,708, granted on August 12, 2008, with … [...] [...] ScottGu Google wizard Stephen R. Lawrence and sub-wizard Omar Khan invented a what I probably too simplistically characterize as meta-data vacuum cleaner. Useful for mobile devices, this addition to Google’s “search without search” arsenal is quite interesting to me. The invention is disclosed in US7,412,708, granted on August 12, 2008, with … [...]

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