I went to LuceneRevolution to test out my assertion that Search is the dominant metaphor for working with Big Data and based on the conversations that I had, that…
In a previous post, we looked at the first two components of the success of search: the density of highlighted search terms and the placement within the search engine…
When a user enters in a search query and is taken to a search engine results page, then the probability of clicking on a result is a function of…
As the “father of the Internet,” Tim Berners-Lee, got onto a plane to head to the burgeoning tech center of Tyler, Texas (all sarcasm intended), he must have wondered…
Yesterday, Netflix announced the separation of its DVD-by-mail division into a new entity called Qwikster. The new company will have a separate website and focus entirely on mail delivery…
Eric Pugh got notified today that hes been accepted to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at the 2011 Apache Lucene Eurocon. So, what, you may ask, does search…
Oftentimes, we see e-commerce marketers who spend a lot of time on the design of their website, make it look pretty, have rounded corners, and follow all of the…
I just came back from the 2011 DI2E conference in Dallas, Texas and certainly left with a lot of impressions. I want to state up front that my impressions…
OpenSource Connections own Michael Herndon has been added to the Lucene.NET committer list. The project website can be found here. Lucene.Net targets the C# and .NET platform for an…
Editors Note: This post was originally published November 24th, 2011. I recently attended the Fall 2010 Enterprise Search Summit anticipating that it would be a battle of the search…
Im delighted to be speaking at Agile Richmond next Tuesday evening, Sept. 14th, on Range Estimation in Scrum. This will be based on the talk I gave at Agile2010…