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Category Archives: Search
What we do (and what I do)
Udi Manber wrote a blog post introducting search quality at Google. As Udi says, we are “quite secretive about what we do” and this is a nice, simple summary of the sorts of thing we work on and what we … Continue reading
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Language models
I don’t usually talk in public about the technical side of what I do at work, but I co-wrote a post for the company blog a few weeks ago on how we build and use language models which I should … Continue reading
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An Editorial Voice
Adolph S. Ochs, New-York, Aug. 18, 1896: To undertake the management of The New-York Times, with its great history for right doing, and to attempt to keep bright the lustre which Henry J. Raymond and George Jones have given it … Continue reading
As He Did Think
I finally read Vannevar Bush’s essay As We May Think for the first time this week. For something written in 1945, it’s amazing; for that matter, if it had been written in 1975, it would have been just as amazing … Continue reading
At least the internet never turns into a pile of grey sludge on your doorstep
This is rainy season in San Francisco. It’s also, unfortunately, the time of year when Pacific Bell SBC at&t delivers new yellow pages. I just about stopped using the yellow pages nearly a decade ago, long before I started working … Continue reading
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