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Ever wonder how Google’s News Personalization works? The Google News Help section on Personalized News provides a lot of details, but a new paper from Google on the topic delves even deeper: Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering (pdf) In this paper we describe our approach to collaborative filtering for generating personalized recommendations for … Read more
I was surprised over the past couple of days after deciding that I’d like to find the Web addresses for as many businesses in my neighborhood as I could. There were more than I expected, though a number of them were pretty hard to locate. I’ve also been trying to find blogs written by local … Read more
A new patent application invented by Dr.Tomasz Imielinski, Vice President of Relevance and OnLine Systems at Ask.com, explores how a search engine can map user queries to answers to those queries. In a conventional search engine, a query such as “Bill Clinton’s Wife” might provide search results about Bill Clinton. A query for “George H. … Read more
I was trying to come up with an idea for a fake patent application for April Fool’s day, like a description of something earth-shaking, and completely unbelievable. I planned to provide a detailed description, and then have a link to the “patent application” that was something completely made up. I come across a lot of … Read more