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Google Search Is Broken

July 25th, 2008. Posted by

Just read a very interesting article on the future of search. The bottom line for me was pretty clear: Google Search is broken. Several of the core principles behind it are now obviously wrong. »


Agile vs Well Planned

July 11th, 2008. Posted by

Much has been written about methods of developing software – books and books and blogs and blogs. I love the writing and thinking of Steve McConnell, although some of his observations can be a bit gloomy (top 2 mistakes almost always or often stated are 1 Overly optimistic schedules 77% and, 2 Unrealistic expectations 73%). »


Creating A Graph To Put On A Website

July 10th, 2008. Posted by
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I have some data. Not much. Just two rows and a few colums and I want to make a beautiful graph, turn it into a web-friendly image and put it on this blog.

How hard can that be? It turns out, way harder than it should be. One word aarrrgghh. »


The PURPOSE Of Social Search

July 7th, 2008. Posted by

Over the last 30 years, many tasks that humans once performed have been automated, encoded and passed over to computers. It’s the drive for efficiency that Bill Gates still talks about today. The internet however, never started off as a human-powered system so there was nothing to automate. But recently we have been witnessing the emergence of human-powered applications such as Social Search that are in some way competing with fully automated systems. »


Brandwatching

July 3rd, 2008. Posted by
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Defining brand image as a multi-dimensional entity and working with individual dimensions explicitly has several important benefits, in both practical and conceptual terms. »


Scoring Sentiment

June 20th, 2008. Posted by

Using machines to understand text is a big part of what we do here at Brandwatch. And sentiment analysis is part of it. As wikipedia nicely puts it; »


How Good Is Good Enough?

June 19th, 2008. Posted by

Seth Godin wrote a moving post yesterday about worthiness. He writes almost as a stream of consciousness and makes some great points. »


Google’s Bogus Results Count

June 18th, 2008. Posted by

As I mentioned in the last post, the accuracy of the entire result set is critical to us at Brandwatch, but so too is making sure that we have as big a sample as possible. »


Recall vs Precision

June 17th, 2008. Posted by
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This is a classic tug-of-war issue with search. There is a good definition on Wikipedia and I really like Tim Bray’s description on the Ongoing site. »


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