Information is Beautiful is a thought provoking labour of love by one of the first true data journalists, David McCandless. It is a simply structured collection of…
Working in Bing Local Search brings together a number of interesting challenges. Working in Bing Local Search brings together a number of interesting challenges.Firstly, we are in…
The web search community, in recent months and years, has heard quite a bit about the 'knowledge graph.' The basic concept is reasonably straightforward: instead of a…
At the beginning of the year, Google's results page for looked like this: At the beginning of the year, Google's results page for looked like this:Note: the…
[I work at Microsoft where I work on projects that drive data quality in our local search experiences on Bing and other clients.] [I work at Microsoft…
Here are five hidden skills for big data scientists: 1. Be Clear: Is Your Problem Really A Big Data Problem? (more…)
I'm trying to figure out which camera to go for: the GoPro or the Contour. When I search on Google for help in finding some way to…
The most commonly referenced definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the Turing Test which avoids the tricky questions like 'what is intelligence' or 'what does it mean…
Today, according to the announcement on the BlogPulse homepage, is the day that Neilsen will shutter the longstanding blog analysis and search site. BlogPulse was originally envisioned…
Initially, web search engines were restricted to returning results which were simple pointers to web pages. Modern search engines often include an 'answer' on the first page.…
