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Amit Singhal reveales exact formula of Google's ranking at Retrieval Conference in Glasgow
Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:45:33
Amit Singhal, the main architect of Google's search algorithms, revealed the exact formulas of Google's ranking this morning at the European Conference of Information Retrieval in Glasgow, UK. (http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk)
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Karen Spärck Jones video online
Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:45:33
Many have asked for an online version of the Athena Lecture by Karen Spärck Jones. The video can be found in the ACM Digital Library and on the Cambridge Computer Laboratory page.

SIGIR 2007 conference a major success
Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:03:33
The SIGIR conference is over. Many thanks to all participants for making SIGIR in the Netherlands a major success. See you in Singapore in 2008!

SIGIR best paper awards announced today
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:55:48
The SIGIR 2007 best paper awards were handed today at the SIGIR banquet. This year's best paper is written by Ryen White, Mikhail Bilenko, and Silviu Cucerzan: Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction. The best student paper is written by D. Sculley and Gabriel Wachman: Relaxed online Support Vector Machines for spam filtering.
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Farcast Reporter at SIGIR 2007
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:21:54

Registration is open! Interested parties will be able to follow the events at SIGIR 2007 on a multimedia weblog at sigir.farcast.nl, provided by Farcast.
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Follow SIGIR 2007 on Flickr
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:05:12

Wish you were here in Amsterdam? See what's happening right now on Flickr: Go to http://www.flickr.com / photos / sigir2007.

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