EasyAsk Has a Sticky Search
When I first began reading the EasyAsk article, “Search Laboratory: Rock ‘n’ Roll Lab Rats” it has the typical story about search difficulties and the importance about an accurate, robust search...
View ArticleGoogle May Erase Line Between History and Real Time
Do you remember where you were or what you searched the first time you used Google? This investors.com author does and shares the story about that, in addition to the story about what may be the last...
View ArticleGoogle Popular Times Now in Real Time
Just a quick honk about a little Google feature called Popular Times. LifeHacker points out an improvement to the tool in, “Google Will Now Show You How Busy a Business Is in Real Time.” To help users...
View ArticleBing Gets Nostalgic
In my entire life, I have never seen so many people who were happy to welcome in a New Year. 2016 will be remembered for violence, political uproar, and other stuff that people wish to forget....
View ArticleRise of Fake News Should Have All of Us Questioning Our Realities
The article on NBC titled Five Tips on How to Spot Fake News Online reinforces the catastrophic effects of “fake news,” or news that flat-out delivers false and misleading information. It is important...
View ArticleGoogle and the Cloud Take on Corporate Database Management
The article titled Google Cloud Platform Releases New Database Services, Fighting AWS and Azure for Corporate Customers on GeekWire suggests that Google’s corporate offerings have been weak in the area...
View ArticleElastic Stack Offers Machine Learning Functionality on the Side
Elastic, the company behind the Elasticsearch stack, has announced the release of a commercial add-on available via X-Pack. The product will detect unusual changes or anomalies in Elasticsearch’s...
View ArticleCricket More Popular Than Koran
In the West, we tend to think that Islamic countries spend all waking hours of the day praying, reading the Koran, and doing other religious-based activities. We forget that these people are just as...
View ArticleQuantexa: A Better Way to Nail a Money Launderer?
We noted the Techcrunch article “Quantexa Raises $64.7M to Bring Big Data Intelligence to Risk Analysis and Investigations.” There were a number of interesting statements or factoids in the write up;...
View ArticleElasticsearch Versus RocksDB: The Old Real Time Razzle Dazzle
Something happens. The “event” is captured and written to the file. Even if you are watching the “something” happening, there is latency between the event and the sensor or the human perceiving the...
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