Search engines are realizing they can earn more revenues by allowing users to manipulate their indexes. Yahoo! BOSS and Google … More
Month: November 2008
Don’t yang about it. Goodbye, Yang.
Finally, Yahoo!’s CEO Jerry Yang is gone. Unfortunately, statements like the following show he was so disconnected from reality: “despite the external … More
Outstanding IR Theses
Thank you to all new researchers that have signed to receive IRW, now in its new format. The following theses are … More
PC + Digital TV + Search Engines
I’ll be today presenting at Interamerican University on search engine technologies and on a research project. I plan to cover how … More
Vector Space Model and Protein Retrieval
I came across an interesting paper, A Modified Vector Space Model for Protein Retrieval, where in the second page of … More
IR Thoughts 