information-retrieval on S Anand

How to read when time is short

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:00:00 +0000

How to read when time is short. Read the “How To Find The Essential 20%” section carefully. Another interesting post from Bert on How to Learn More With No Extra Effort uses the principle in the post below to suggest we take a lot of breaks while learning.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht i cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht i was rdanieg. the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind is amazanig. aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. the rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. amazanig huh? yaeh and yuo awlyas thohgut slpeling was ipmorantt.

Comments

Dhar 14 Nov 2005 9:18 am: Check out Google Analytics
Jayant 14 Nov 2005 10:00 am: And just hope the client does not know the remaining 80% or isn
Raj 15 Nov 2005 8:16 pm: what is the run?
Anonymous 16 Nov 2005 5:14 pm: i am confused with your email id is it s-anand@yahoo.com or s_anand@yahoo.com ?
S Anand 16 Nov 2005 6:50 pm: root underscore node at yahoo dot com, actually.
leke 17 Nov 2005 11:43 am: why can
S Anand 17 Nov 2005 3:34 pm: Sorry, apostrophes were causing problems in the comments. I’ve fixed them.
Sri 13 Dec 2005 11:00 am: This is interesting: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

RSS Clustering

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:00:00 +0000

RSS clustering is about doing what Gmail does on news sources, to RSS feeds of your choice.

Comments

Arun 28 Jul 2005 4:01 pm: How do you get to all these amazing links?
S Anand 29 Jul 2005 6:01 am: Mainly using del.icio.us these days.
Arun 29 Jul 2005 2:30 pm: Ah, okie… But there is so much crap there…You are darn good at filtering stuff then! :-)
Arun 29 Jul 2005 2:36 pm: btw, dunno if it’s a bug, but there is a problem with the cursor in this text book. If I leave the page and return to the text box after i start typing, am not able to get the cursor to refocus on the text box. It just disappears. In firefox.
RaM 29 Jul 2005 4:36 pm: Update the placement section also
RaM 29 Jul 2005 4:44 pm: Your Placement Section is static. Pls Update it. Your search tactics are very good
Dhar 30 Jul 2005 5:28 am: Arun, I too have had that problem with the cursor.
Howie 30 Jul 2005 7:56 am: few links are dead in Placement section
S Anand 31 Jul 2005 9:07 pm: Could you give me a step-by-step regarding the cursor problem? I couldn’t reproduce it.
Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:50 pm: http://digg.com/spy has an excellent collection of whacky/interesting links. And they use Ajax too. Another nice place to pick up good interesting posts.

Amazon concordance

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Amazon has a new feature called concordance that shows the frequently used words in a book like a tag list.

Google search history

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Google search history is like a9 – it remembers your searches. But why is that useful?

Comments

sathish 29 Jun 2005 7:51 am: I found it useful recently.. I remembered that I got a link when I searched for a particular term and by going through the search history, I figured out link I had looked earlier.
S Anand 29 Jun 2005 8:49 am: Ah… that makes sense. I use the history in the toolbar. Guess this mirrors that.
sathish 4 Jul 2005 9:25 am: read more about the google personalization from mit tech review blog - http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/wo/wo_070105hellweg.asp?trk=top

Searching the invisible web

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Searching the invisible web.

Comments

S Anand 11 Apr 2005 3:42 am: More here

Keep your desk cluttered

Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Interesting article on The Economist on the value of a cluttered desk.

… the assumption that filers can find stuff more quickly is wrong. Filers, they say, “are less likely to access a given piece of data, and more likely to acquire extraneous data…”

(There’s a “Clean your desk” initiative at BCG Mumbai going on right now.)

Vivisimo

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Vivisimo, a document clustering service. As far as I can understand, it collects data from multiple sources and clusters it into hierarchies. Automatically. Sounds good, and seems to work reasonably well on Net searches too. At the very least, it’s a fresh way of searching. via Markose

Oracle of Google

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:00:00 +0000

The Oracle of Google is the coolest Google app so far. Ask it a question with 4 choices, and it uses Google to guess the answer. It knows that Abdul Kalam is India’s President, though it did prefer Vajpayee to former Presidents. via Google Weblog

Google programming contest winner

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:00:00 +0000

The winner of the Google programming contest.

SearchOnline

Thu, 23 May 2002 12:00:00 +0000

SearchOnline meta-search engine. Seems quite good so far.

Google paper

Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:00:00 +0000

The original Google paper.

AnswerBus

Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Is AnswerBus better than AskJeeves?

Well connected

Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Well connected. A database of sites and e-mails that people trust. You can build your own trust network on this. (Given that Google once started out as google.stanford.edu, I wonder what this one could become.)

Google news

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Google news. Life just gets better by the day.

Evolution of Google

Mon, 08 Oct 2001 12:00:00 +0000

The evolution of Google post the Sep 11 crash.

Cybelle in Agentland

Sun, 27 May 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Cybelle lives in AgentLand. She’s 100% virtual (having admitted it, she asked if I was disappointed), and guides people through their site. It’s a new and interesting way of having a search engine on a site.

Subjex

Sun, 27 May 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Subjex, like Ask Jeeves, handles searches in plain English.

Subject specific scout reports

Sat, 19 May 2001 12:00:00 +0000

The subject-specific Scout reports, which were a prime source of my information, are about to be discontinued from the end of the month. (No funds.)

Sources other than search engines

Wed, 09 May 2001 12:00:00 +0000

I just realised that website search engines aren’t the only place you can search for information. There’re search engines for FAQs, webrings, mailing lists, newsgroups, encyclopaedias.

Tech search engine

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 12:00:00 +0000

TechTarget is a search engine on all kinds of IT topics, likd Linux, EBusiness, SAP, etc.