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From The Noisy Channel
Attention, Expertise, Trust
I’m old enough to remember when the web was new, and honest enough to admit that I was a skeptic at the time. Fortunately, I was wrong, and I owe my career to the...
From The Noisy Channel
What is Not Search?
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Search is unquestionably my hammer, so it’s easy for me to frame everything as a search problem. After...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Make Your Systems UA-Ready with Our New Code Samples!
By Satish Babu, Chair, UA Technology Working Group The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), in partnership with Cofomo Inc., have developed Universal Acceptance...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New UA Local Initiative in Sri Lanka Aims to Accelerate Adoption of Internationalized ccTLDs
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Sri Lanka is a densely populated, ethnically diverse island of 21.7 million people, with two official languages...
From The Noisy Channel
Let’s Talk About Resume Screening
With apologies to Bruno, we don’t talk about resume screening. But we should.Resume screening is usually the first step in the hiring process for active candidates...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Testing Reveals Popular Web Hosting Tools are Not UA-Ready
By Nabil Benamar, Chair, UA Measurement Working Group Web hosting tools are critical to managing and maintaining a functional website. They are the building blocks...
From The Noisy Channel
Technical Interviewing: Be Better
Technical interviewing is hard, but that’s no excuse for it to be so terrible. Since candidates generally don’t have much leverage to negotiate the interview process...
From The Noisy Channel
Query Similarity
I started writing about query understanding in 2016, working my way up from low-level concerns like language identification and character normalization to higher...
From The Noisy Channel
Information Extraction
When we index content for search, it’s natural to think in terms of documents. But searchers aren’t necessarily looking for documents. They’re looking for information...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Understanding
This publication is a series of posts devoted to content understanding. Each post is self-contained, but there is a natural progression. If you’d like to read them...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
ICANN75 Recap: Challenges, Successes, and Looking Ahead to 2023
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) As the ICANN community came together for the last Public Meeting of 2022, the Universal Acceptance SteeringICANN75...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Moderation
Many platforms, particularly social media sites and ecommerce marketplaces, establish policies to determine what they consider acceptable content. These platforms...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Make Your Systems UA-Ready with the New UA-Readiness Report for FY22
By Ajay Data, UASG Chair “What gets measured gets managed.” This quote is popular in business settings because it speaks to a widely accepted truth: if you can...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Publishes FY23 Action Plan; Increases Focus on Technical Communities
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published its annual operating plan for FY23 (July 2022 – June 2023). The FY23 Action Plan provides an overview...
From The Noisy Channel
Similarity-Sensitive Diversity
In my work on search engines and recommender systems, I’ve thought a lot about entropy and diversity. I named my first blog, The Noisy Channel, after a seminalClaude...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Quality
Despite its importance, content quality is hard to define without devolving into circularity. What we mean by content quality is a measure or collection of measures...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Göran Marby Named Honorary UASG Ambassador
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is pleased to announce that it has named Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President and...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Building a More Inclusive Internet for All: A Radix Initiative
By Aman Masjide, UA Ambassador; Consulting Advisor, Trust and Safety, Radix The ironic fact of the matter remains that there’s rigidity hardcoded into the ever-evolving...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Structure
One of the challenges facing search applications is that users aren’t necessarily searching for documents. To put it another way, the unit of content that a user...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group