Category Archives: Information Retrieval

Softwares/Libraries for Full-text Search

By Siddhartha Reddy | November 5, 2008

A lot of applications have a requirement to search the full-text of some content they have for some words it might contain. This kind of functionality is often referred to as full-text search. For example, a blogging software might need to provide a search functionality that searches the blog posts for the user entered query [...]

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Fun with Google Sets

By Siddhartha Reddy | March 21, 2008

Google Sets is a real fun experiment from the Google Labs. It basically allows you to “automatically create sets of items from a few examples.” So you can enter “Sachin Tendulkar”, “Rahul Dravid” and “Sourav Ganguly,” and, be presented with a much larger set of the players of the Indian Cricket Team. Or enter “Athens”, [...]

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Information R/evolution

By Siddhartha Reddy | October 23, 2007

This is a must watch video by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University.
This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and [...]

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The Dude Experiment

By Siddhartha Reddy | May 12, 2007

A friend had once shown me something very interesting: no matter how many [u]s you use in [dude], Google always has results for it! (One of those results for some twenty-odd [u]s was a blog entry of his — that’s how he came up with this). I just decided to run this experiment using the [...]

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