Archive for the ‘Long Tail’ Category
Friday, August 28th, 2009
The list below is 50 consecutive random links to Wikipedia articles using the Random Article link that's in all articles. As suggested in a recent study by Kittur, Chi & Suh (discussed below) I've divided these random articles into the top level Wikipedia categories. More interesting than these categories are ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The slides and data from Jon Orwant's presentation on Google Book Search at TOC, that were not available when I wrote previously, have now been put up on the O'Reilly site. [these have been removed, see comment below] This is made up of 59 PDF slides, covering a range of ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
In a recent NY Times article that I blogged on, Dan Clancy, the engineering director for Google book search, is cited as saying "every month users view at least 10 pages of more than half of the one million out-of-copyright books that Google has scanned into its servers." Remarkably, this ...
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