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Newest Speeches

Speeches, presentations, and lectures in this section have been given or will be given. In most cases, the speeches included on this page are edited versions or the talks given by Stephen E. Arnold. The reason is that some of the information in the talks and the graphics are part of forthcoming publications or are proprietary to Stephen E. Arnold. Most of the talks have been converted to Adobe PDF files. A few PowerPoint presentations are included. The reason is that Stephen E. Arnold uses the information on this Web site as a test corpus for testing new search systems. A variety of file types provides a more useful indication of the indexing time required for the corpus.

• Relevance, Web 2.0, Yahoo, and Google. May 24, 2006 (PDF, 1.2 MB).  
• "Relevance: Lame, Not Dead Yet" is the essay form of Mr.Arnold's talk at the Boston Search Engine Meeting. (PDF, 450 KB), 25 April 2006.  
• The End of Relevance and Objective Search Results. November 30, 2005 (PDF, 751 KB).  
• Relevance and the Future of Search (PDF, 39 KB), 20 August 2005.  
• Envisioning the Future of Search (PDF, 188 KB), 2 August 2005.  
• The Googleplex: Search or More? (PDF, 130 KB), 28 July 2005. 
• Web IV&V (PDF, 800 KB), July 2005. 
• “Improving a Site's Google Ranking” (PDF, 145 KB), May 18, 2005. 
• Dynix Analytics (PDF, 1.6 MB), March 2005. 
• Social Network Technology and a New Search Paradigm, October 2003. 
• Implementing Enterprise Search: Five Pitfalls (PDF, 2 MB), April 7-8, 2003. 
• Traffic and Search: How to Beat the Odds in Two Rigged Games (PDF, 1.2 MB), May 19, 2003. 
• What Is Enterprise Content Management and ... (PDF, 2.3 MB)
  Federal Library and Information Center Committee, Library of Congress, March 14, 2003.;
• Intranet and Portal Technologies (PDF, 1.6 MB)
  Computers in Libraries, Washington DC, March 15, 2003.

Reuse of the Speeches

Stephen E. Arnold allows these materials to be used by individuals. Libraries and instructors may use the articles in their vertical file or classes. If you have a request that you think falls outside the boundaries described, please, contact ArnoldIT about your request. Note that some of the images used in the talks have been copied from Web sites and may be covered by copyrights not held by Stephen E. Arnold.

Archived Speeches

Talks in this section date back more than 10 years. Excluded are talks given by Stephen E. Arnold that relied upon overhead transparencies, not PowerPoint decks, for visuals. In most cases, the speeches included on this page are edited versions or the talks given by Stephen E. Arnold. Excluded are talks given as part of a consulting project to a specific organization. However, some of the talks contain bits and pieces of Stephen E. Arnold’s confidential briefings. Most of the talks have been converted to Adobe PDF files. A few PowerPoint presentations are included.

Speech Archive. This page provides links to older presentations given by Stephen E. Arnold. Most are in PowerPoint for Web format. The speeches are listed with newer talks at the top of the list.