Archive for January 27th, 2008
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Induction
The first software house that I worked at had a company policy which I think was quite useful. The first day for any employee - (Contractor or Permanent) was spent going and introducing yourself to at least 80% of the people in the […]
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Query log analysis is a bad solution to a problem - We need a client side mind reading device
In the world of search determining user’s query intent is a very hard problem
“Query intent” is the term used to refer to “what the user actually wanted”
For example: The user types “italian cooking” into the search box - How is the search engine supposed to know that the user wants “Italian cooking books” instead of […]
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
White labeling - the answer to targeting different user demographics
The life cycle of a community product feature:
someone comes up with an idea
person suggest an idea to the product owner of community site
product owner says thats a good idea but some of our community will not like it
idea stays on shelf
Common Product owner statements are -
“no, that feature is too […]
