A couple of years ago, I started The Noisy Channel as a personal blog. Since my then-employer Endeca didn’t have a corporate blog, I became the company’s ambassador to the blogosphere, despite my protests that this was not a corporate blog. But I’m pleased to report that Endeca now has is its own blog, aptly [...]

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Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a presentation by John Wang, search architect at LinkedIn. You may have read my earlier posts about LinkedIn introducing faceted search and celebrating the interface from a user perspective. John’s presentation at the SDForum took a developer’s perspective, discussing the challenges of combining faceted search and [...]

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The 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010) will be held on Wednesday, February 3rd at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, NY. It’s co-located with the WSDM 2010 conference on Web Search and Data Mining. As a co-organizer, I’m proud to announce that the workshop program is now online. It features a [...]

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The other day, I promised in a comment thread that I’d write about what I see as real use cases for real-time search. As it happens, I’m experiencing one right now. As my wife, daughter, and I were walking home from a playground, we noticed a large number of fire trucks congregating a block away [...]

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Earlier this week, Peter Morville and Mark Burrell presented a UIE virtual seminar on “Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns For Great Online Experiences“. It sold out! And I thought Pete Bell and I had done well with our seminar on faceted search! But I’m hardly surprised. Although I wasn’t able to attend it myself, I [...]

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Weren’t we just talking about what’s different about mobile search use cases and about how to make web search more exploratory? I may be biased, but I think that Google’s recently launched “near me now” button is a step in the right direction (no pun intended!) on both of these fronts. I’m curious to hear [...]

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Happy New Year to the Noisy Community and everyone else in virtual earshot! I hope everyone is entering 2010 well-rested and ready for great things. And I don’t just mean shiny new gadgets. For me, 2009 marked the end of a decade-long run at Endeca, where I focused on bringing HCIR to enterprises. I’m particularly [...]

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