Webhamer Weblog: Search & ICT-related blogging

Wikipedia laboratory is a special interest group on Wikipedia mining. The main purpose of this Web site is to share knowledge, discuss Wikipedia analysis, develop tools, etc. using Wikipedia knowledge.

Miiget is a celebrity search engine that allows you to search for famous people and explore their relationships with others. Combines Exalead's core technologies plus advanced image analytics (face detection & similarity) from LTU
Technologies. Technologies deployed include:

* Named Entity Detector
* Relation Context Extraction
* Advanced Picture Analysis (face detection & similarity)

As a demo Miiget is currently limited to a subset of People extracted from the Web (a few hundred thousand people).

Miiget is a celebrity search engine that allows you to search for famous people and explore their relationships with others. Combines Exalead's core technologies plus advanced image analytics (face detection & similarity) from LTU
Technologies. Technologies deployed include:

* Named Entity Detector
* Relation Context Extraction
* Advanced Picture Analysis (face detection & similarity)

As a demo Miiget is currently limited to a subset of People extracted from the Web (a few hundred thousand people).

“The triumph of the distributed Web.” He said the aggregate power of distributed human activity will trump centralized control. His main point was that Google, and other search engines that analyze the Web and links, are much less useful than a (theoretical) search engine that knows not what people have linked to (as Google does), but rather what pages are open on people’s browsers at the moment that people are searching. “All the problems of search would be solved if search relevance was ranked by what browsers were displaying,” he said.

NetBeans IDE now has a module available on the Update Center that provides tight integration with versions 1.3 and 1.4 of the Subversion version control system. This Subversion support is designed to focus on the tasks you perform most often and especially to be integrated with the IDE's project system. The workflow is very similar to that of the IDE's CVS integration.

This guide shows you the things you need to do get Subversion working with your sources in the IDE and provides a quick overview of the most important features.

So away from those two disappointments, we did have a fairly full docket of meetings with vendors, which were generally lively, with good give and take. Where we say ‘451 research to follow,’ it means our clients can expect a research report on the company in the near future.

Wolfram Alpha is live. For those of you who haven’t heard of Wolfram Alpha, it’s the very recently launched massive knowledge base from the makers of the premier mathematics program, Mathematica. It’s a massive computation engine but it’s not like any search engine you’ve ever seen. The best way to learn about it is to try some examples. Alpha’s visual gallery of examples is a good source of query ideas.

I think that Alpha is pretty cool and that what it does it does remarkably well. However, I think the Google generation isn’t going to like Alpha for some of the same reasons that they don’t like federated search; Alpha doesn’t offer instant gratification the way Google does. There’s actually a learning curve, something that Googlers are not used to. Plus Google always give you something interesting to read regardless of how badly you butcher your query. Not so with the narrowly focused federated search engines and definitely not so with Alpha.

"Google is a little more than obsessed with search," confessed Ms Mayer.

Recently, Uwe Schindler and others have added a new capability to Lucene and Solr to make working with numeric ranges a lot faster. I haven’t tried out this new functionality yet, so I thought I would walk through it here and explore it’s capabilities.

Since Lucene treats most everything as Strings, encoding numbers and dates and then utilizing them in ranges has always required a little extra work to make it perform well. Previously, one would have to have either use less precision or slower running queries in order to work with ranges that had a lot of distinct values. This is due to the need for Lucene to enumerate through a large number of terms.

Now, however, thanks to the new org.apache.lucene.search.trie package (currently located in the contrib/queries area of Lucene, but it may move to the Lucene core, see [1] below) and it’s addition to Solr via a FieldType, Lucene and Solr users can take advantage of much faster range searches.

We are in the midst of a number of changes, additions and updates, but wanted to get a smaller update out to address a few small issues. These changes do not require you to update the QUAKE LIVE plugin, and will be downloaded to you automatically when you login.

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If you have been using Ubuntu, which uses Gnome as the default desktop, or Kubuntu which uses KDE as the desktop, and have been wondering what the other desktop looks like, you can easily install KDE or Gnome and switch back and forth before logging on to Ubuntu.

So I was going through the Virtualbox tutorial on setting up virtualbox to get a real ip through a bridge. The problem goes into the first script when they want to open a TUN/TAP network interface, the script says it can't find the brctl command:

Howto use virtual machine in Bridge mode under Ubuntu 7.10 using VirtualBox