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Book Review: Information is Beautiful by David McCandless

Information is Beautiful is a thought provoking labour of love by one…

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Metric-Driven Agile for Big Data

Working in Bing Local Search brings together a number of interesting challenges.…

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O Knowledge Graph, Where Art Thou?

The web search community, in recent months and years, has heard quite…

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Google’s Year in Local Search

At the beginning of the year, Google's results page for looked like…

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How Apple’s Local and Mapping Investment Will Lead to Web Search

Most of the civilized world, by this time, has heard about Apple's…

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5 Hidden Skills for Big Data Scientists

Here are five hidden skills for big data scientists: 1. Be Clear:  Is…

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Google+ Is Like 401K For Search

I'm trying to figure out which camera to go for: the GoPro…

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Did Web Search Kill Artificial Intelligence?

The most commonly referenced definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the…

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Farewell To BlogPulse

Today, according to the announcement on the BlogPulse homepage, is the day…

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Bing Has The Answer

Initially, web search engines were restricted to returning results which were simple…

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