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 unbiased [...]

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In a recent announcement, Twitter Platform / API Product Manager Ryan Sarver tells us that Twitter is:
committed to providing a framework for any company big or small, rich or poor to do a deal with us to get access to the Firehose in the same way we did deals with Google and Microsoft. We want everyone [...]

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If you’re into search startups, then today’s a great day to check out what a couple of them are up to.
TheFind just launched (or relaunched?) a “buying engine” that aspires “to help every shopper find exactly what they want to buy, and to help every merchant, large and small, to reach those shoppers.” It [...]

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I enjoyed my proverbial fifteen seconds of fame on CNN yesterday, and I even enjoyed lunch at the New York Times cafeteria today. But for a prime-time media show check out the live blogging of a chat that Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt are having with reporters at the Google New York [...]

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Just thought I’d alert readers to an article I just published in the current issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin entitled “Reconsidering Relevance and Embracing Interaction“. Of course, it’s all about trying to usher in a brave new world of human-computer information retrieval. If you’re not already sick of reading about HCIR, check it out!

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The HCIR 2009 proceedings are now available on the workshop web site. We’re planning to  save trees and money by asking attendees to download the proceedings rather than printing them out. And, of course, we’re delighted to circulate the proceedings to those who won’t be fortunate enough to spend the day at the workshop.

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Google announced today that its Search Options feature, which allows users to progressively refine search results, now includes new refinement options: past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs and news. Of course, you could do some of this already with clever hackery. In any [...]

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Thanks to Robin Fray Carey for posting the webcast of the Ethics of Blogging panel on the Social Media Today site. You can also catch the tweet stream at #SMTWebcast while it’s still indexed.

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If you are are interested in user interface design for faceted search–and I know that’s a hot topic for many Noisy Channel readers–then be sure to check out this free book chapter by Moritz Stefaner, Sébastian Ferré, Saverio Perugini, Jonathan Koren, and Yi Zhang.
By the way, a chapter of my own book on faceted search [...]

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At  the first HCIR workshop in 2007, Michael Stonebraker stood up in the middle of an open discussion session and told all assembled that we needed to be thinking about the deep web.
I don’t know how much the audience took heed of his call, but he certainly followed his own advice. He and Endeca alum [...]

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