Personalized Search and Disambiguation - The answers to search engine relevance

There is a flurry of announcements around horizontal and vertical search engines offering ‘better’ and ‘more relevant’ content retrieval. SEOmoz.org has an interesting article on the ability (or inability) of search engines to return relevant results. In this entire discussion of retrieving more relevant there are two seemingly related problems - ‘personalized search’ and ‘disambiguation [...]

I for Implementation!

IBM’s commercials always have an “interest quotient”. The recent Innovation-Man commercial where our I-Man completely forgets about the “I for Implementation” is funny but close to reality. A product development (the sequence can vary based on the product type) goes through the following phases: 1. Market Research/Ideation, 2. Design and Research, 3. Implementation/Execution, 4. [...]