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Emerging Face of Information Search: The Complete Report
September 14, 2004
Introduction to the Report: With the impending Google IPO, and the huge amount of buzz created by the search engines in recent months, we at K-Praxis ran a series designed to give a complete round up of search engines. We
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Emerging Face of Information Search Part 6: The Road Ahead
July 28, 2004
The Future of Search and Search Engine Users Search for "the future of search" (Google, Yahoo, Teoma) on any of the major search engines and you get at least a dozen perspectives on what is going to be the future
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Emerging Face of Information Search Part 5: Information Crawling and Indexing
July 26, 2004
Information Crawling and Indexing: Introduction So far this series has focused on how several facets of search affect the user of the search results. In order to give completeness to our understanding of information search, we need to pay heed
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Emerging Face of Information Search Part 4: Paid Listings Vs Organic Listings
July 20, 2004
As search engines strive to keep up with advertising demand and become the de facto information intermediaries between advertisers and buyers, the debate over paid vs. organic listings is going to haunt the search players - more so when the
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Emerging Face of Information Search Part 3: Search Interfaces and Information Display
July 15, 2004
Online Search Interfaces and Information Display The last two articles in this series focused on the two different aspects of the search equation - understanding the users' intention and relevance ranking of information. We now turn our attention to another
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Emerging Face of Information Search Part 2: Relevance Ranking of Results
July 14, 2004
One of the primary concerns of search engines today, besides understanding the users' intent, is that of ranking information. A search engine application on the web or inside an enterprise needs to match information with the search query. The sheer
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Emerging Face of Information Search Part 1: Understanding Users' Intention
July 9, 2004
Online search has been gaining in prominence ever since Google disclosed their intention of taking the IPO route about six months ago. It is being viewed in a new light - as a technology, as well as a marketing method.
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Contextualized Tabbed OR Categorized Indexes and the Future of Search
December 5, 2003
In the light of a discussion started by a SearchEnglineWatch article (Searching With Invisible Tabs), we at K-Praxis thought of presenting some more constrained hypotheses about categorized indexes and tabbed search. The hypotheses around tabbed indexes provide a glimpse into
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Pre-IPO Google Dossier: An Experiment in Opinion Mining (Updated)
November 25, 2003
The headlines, analysis and speculative rumors storm kicked off by the recent news about Google IPO and the New York Times article about Microsoft’s proposed offer to buy out Google has now subsided, the ripple effects of this head-line news
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Pre-IPO Google Dossier: An Experiment in Opinion Mining
November 17, 2003
The headlines, analysis and speculative rumors storm kicked off by the recent news about Google IPO and the New York Times article about Microsoft’s proposed offer to buy out Google has now subsided, the ripple effects of this head-line news
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Amazon Book Search: An Example of Unique Content Leverage
October 27, 2003
Amazon unveiled a new search service last week, including a keyword search that returns text snippets from pages of some 120, 000 books listed on Amazon.com. It seems that Amazon's association with a search start-up - iconically named: "A9" -
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Kaltix + Outride + Google: PageRank on Steroids
October 14, 2003
Now it's time to write an in-depth analysis (in true K-Praxis fashion) as the news about Google's acquisition of Kaltix has died down and even Google CEO has spoken about the Google's search vision. Kaltix acquisition's (along with technology from
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Information Retrieval: Visual Search in the Context of Information Visualization
September 9, 2003
The idea of visual search and information visualization is coming into spotlight again with recent announcement by Anacubis demonstrating search from Amazon and Google. It also gives us an opportunity to focus on some of the limitations of visual search
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Google Labs and Overture Research: A Brief Comparative Study
August 30, 2003
Company financials and stock markets performances of individual companies in a market segment are usually a good barometer to measure the health of a market segment, but an equally significant barometer is the amount of research an industry spawns -
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Yahoo vs. Google and Online Marketing
August 17, 2003
David Filo, Co-Founder Yahoo Inc, was in Bangalore, India recently and gave a presentation on the achievements and the future of Yahoo. The most striking thing about this presentation was the "breadth" of Yahoo and the number of things they
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Blogs and Google : The Future of Categorized Indexes
May 10, 2003
If you are the one who tracks news/events about information management and information retrieval world, then you must be cloyed and glutted with news about Google. Over the last two-three months, there have been a deluge of news and opinionizing
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Some Recent Trends in Information Retrieval
December 20, 2002
Over the last month since I posted the last dispatch here, there has been huge developments in information management, collaboration and retrieval world. I will just list some of these developments.......
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