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  1. Re:Moot point now - GMAIL cookies on Google Adds Chat To Gmail · · Score: 1

    "Google wants you signed-in".
    Yes, and this new chat functionality will ensure that. People don't generally log out of their chat/IM application very often, remaining available for friends and others to send a message. This way, you'll be logged in while searching normally, etc, and they can track your search habits more easily.

  2. Optional on users' side only on Google Adds Chat To Gmail · · Score: 1

    1. Just like logging in to see your search history, it's optional on your end, not Google's. They will likely store the chat logs on their servers no matter what, and therefore...
    2. It should be approached with the same caution as warranted by gmail usage.

  3. Funny on EU to Develop Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I saw that: "France is making a new search engine called 'Quaero'. You just type in what you're looking for and Quaero will refuse to look it up for you."

  4. Video search/indexing research on AOL Buys Video Search Firm · · Score: 1

    Truveo's real accomplishment is their crawler. While this particular site does not do anything that much outside of metadata indexing, there is research currently being done toward effective non-metadata indexing of video content. For one major group of researchers, see the NIST-run TRECVID conference.

  5. Re:I would rather that... on Spammer Gets $11 Billion Fine · · Score: 1

    How did the parent get modded "Insightful"? Someone out there knows what you're talking about I guess...

  6. also... on Evolution Named Scientific Achievement of 2005 · · Score: 1

    Job 26:7 says of God: 'He is hanging the earth upon nothing'. A fairly scientific observation for a time when many thought other entities supported the Earth.

  7. common sense on Evolution Named Scientific Achievement of 2005 · · Score: 1

    You can say "Back in my father's *day*" and mean it literally, using a figure of speech. You can say "In the *dawn* of time" and mean it literally, using a figure of speech, you can say "the *evening* of his life" and mean it literally using a figure of speech.

    You're trying too hard to prove a point. There are plenty of people who see Gen as listing the order and general heppenings of creation, and that it allows for millenia to happen. The Bible even says that to God, 'a day is as a thousand years', or an extended period.

  8. Re:Top search engine name searches on Google Zeitgeist '05 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried that, then I hit "I feel lucky."

    That doesn't seem to do anything for me, just clears the search box...

  9. Top search engine name searches on Google Zeitgeist '05 · · Score: 1

    I want to see a listing of keyword searches for:

    Google
    Yahoo
    MSN Search
    A9
    Clusty
    Teoma

    ...I wonder how many people type in "Google" in the Google search box.

  10. And A9 as well on Graphics Coming to Google Ads · · Score: 1, Informative

    Don't forget A9 - nice interface, text-only ads.

  11. formatting... on Google's Smart Advertising Leads to More Clicks · · Score: 1

    Forgot the html tags, it was supposed to have paragraphs, sorry.
    ---

    I hope your internship works out for you.

    Of course Google has good solutions, but I don't think context and concept matching deserves such a tremendous title. I don't need to beat my chest, throw out textbook phrases or prove anything, you don't know about my education or what I do and honestly, it does even matter. Arguing over the internet is lame. My comment was simply that, understanding the techniques behind the adsense technology, it's very good at what it does no doubt, but i don't believe it's deserving of such exaggerations simply because it's Google.

    And as far as what you were saying about NLP, where do you think Google gets most of it's techniques it uses for context matching, the back end IR systems, etc? The field has a lot of work to do in many aspects, but it's not so easily dismissable.

  12. Still in no position on Google's Smart Advertising Leads to More Clicks · · Score: 1

    I hope your internship works out for you. Of course Google has good solutions, but I don't think context and concept matching deserves such a tremendous title. I don't need to beat my chest, throw out textbook phrases or prove anything, you don't know about my education or what I do and honestly, it does even matter. Arguing over the internet is lame. My comment was simply that, understanding the techniques behind the adsense technology, it's very good at what it does no doubt, but i don't believe it's deserving of such exaggerations simply because it's Google. And as far as what you were saying about NLP, where do you think Google gets most of it's techniques it uses for context matching, the back end IR systems, etc? The field has a lot of work to do in many aspects, but it's not so easily dismissable.

  13. Re:Clearly, you'll accept anything on Google's Smart Advertising Leads to More Clicks · · Score: 1

    Funny thread. Pointless, but funny. I don't think you're in a position to try and accuse or insult, neither am I and I'm not going to. Let's let it be at that.

  14. Location/relative/ownership information on Identity Theft-What Can Really be Done w/o a SSN? · · Score: 1

    Even without a SSN, it's very simple to obtain all the information about where you currently live, phone numbers, where you have lived in the past, who lived with you, who you are related to and where they live, certain items you might own like real estate, boats, etc. any liens against your property and so on. The SSN is typically attached to this info, but it's easy to get all this without the number.

  15. Clearly, you'll accept anything on Google's Smart Advertising Leads to More Clicks · · Score: 1

    Just because it's Google, you'll disregard anything that doubts a positive post about the company. Their use of statistical context learning is good, they do a good job, but I still fail to see how it can be called one of the most sophisticated AI applications on earth. I think any one of the computer vision projects, interactive dialog systems, NLP systems, game AIs, etc are easily more sophisticated. Is Google's work here sophisticated? Definitely. Is it really AI? Questionable.

    I fail to see how contextual keyword matching, what AdSense is, and which has been done in other circles and for other purposes within NLP, approaches "the most sophisticated AI system". But no one will ever be able to convince you of that, it is Google after all!

    It's the writer's job, and yours also, evidently, to convince the reader it is deserving of such an exaggeration.

  16. Re:and? on Google's Smart Advertising Leads to More Clicks · · Score: 1

    Haha! Does an exaggeration like that not have to be proven at all? There have been plenty of "AI" systems made in academic circles that involve more than the context matching Google is using. Sure it's complex, but it's a real stretch to call it AI to begin with, much less the most sophisticated.

  17. woah there... on Google's Smart Advertising Leads to More Clicks · · Score: 1

    Calling it "one of the most sophisticated artificial intelligence systems ever built" is an extreme exaggeration.

  18. TimeWarner says it's a "market rumor" on Google Wants a Piece of AOL? · · Score: 1

    Reuters article

    At roughly the same time this gets posted on /., it gets debunked.

  19. Re:You keep saying that word... on C|Net Integrates Ontology Viewer Into News Site · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't think you know how it is used in CompSci...

    From dictionary.com:
    2. (From philosophy) An explicit
    formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts
    and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of
    interest and the relationships that hold among them

    Feel free to check out citeseer for more ontology information.

    The CNet "ontology" is more of a topic graph though.

  20. Eh? Maybe you didn't actually read my post. on Google Earth Launching For Free · · Score: 1

    No, I'm sure of it, you didn't. Read and try again. Continue practicing as much as you need, there is no time limit.

    You may begin.

  21. ^ Not to diminish the quality of the products on Google Earth Launching For Free · · Score: 1

    This is just another in a long list of great work that comes from google, which I will use and enjoy for a long time.

  22. Why should anyone else bother on Google Earth Launching For Free · · Score: 1

    Great products for free. Some of the best engineers/scientists in the world. Constant amazing releases and press... How many people are just giving up on their aspirations to innovate now, or are replacing their aspirations with "* work at google"?

    Is there even a desire for Google competitors? Reading /. it would seem the answer is no, that people are willing to let Google be the only software company.

  23. Organizing your credit card and bank info on Google CEO Confirms Online Payment System · · Score: 1

    of the world.

  24. I blame the movie also on Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers · · Score: 1

    Yak Yak Yak - started it all. Find me some Gibsons!

  25. Like a swarm of army ants devouring and pillaging on LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot · · Score: 1

    No one can stop the slashdot idiots except MacGyver.