“We find users prefer one answer.” This was the comment of Google’s Behshad Behzadi when presenting Google’s new Ultimate Assistant. In case you don’t already know, Google’s Ultimate Assistant will answer your questions, whether you key them in or (in …
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“Users’ expectations are different for these two. When you search books you expect an answer; when you search journal articles, a scholar expects a list of things to read. A book represents late-stage work, not the early-stage work of journal …
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The rise of new services such as Figshare raises some interesting questions on who will own an increasingly important part of the academic content market. It is a battle between content repositories, institutional repositories and consolidated services.
Content repositories, …
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So said Roovn Pakiri, co-presenter of the keynote address at this year’s Enterprise Search Europe (London, April). His presentation represented the curious way in which a logical argument can go from a simple, sensible statement to something that is decidedly questionable …
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I was fortunate to be invited to talk at Enterprise Search Europe in London this week, which gave me an excellent two-day overview of the state of search. It was an impressive event, combining practitioners, academics, and visionaries, with detailed, blow-by-blow …
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I’m sure you’ve been in the same situation. You go to a shop and see something you would like to buy. For whatever reason, you don’t buy it at that moment, but when you come home you look …