Stefan Weitz

Search (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Search is as old as language. There has always been a need for one to find something in the jumble of human creation. The first web was nothing more than passing verbal histories down the generations so others could find and remember how not to get eaten; the first search used the power of written language to build simple indexes in printed books, leading to the Dewey Decimal system and reverse indices in more modern times.

Then digital happened. Besides having profound societal impacts, it also made the act of searching almost impossibly complex for both engines and searchers. Information isn't just words; it is pictures, videos, thoughts tagged with geocode data, routes, physical world data, and, increasingly, the machines themselves reporting their condition and listening to others.

Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter holds up a mirror to our time to see if search can keep up. Author Stefan Weitz, Director of Search for Bing (Microsoft), explores the...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bibliomotion, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781629560359
• Artikelnr.: 42128623

Autorenporträt

Weitz, Stefan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Where Is My Flying Car?
1. What Search Will See
2. How Search Will Act
3. What Search Will Do
4. What Search Will Be
5. What Search Will Bring Us
6. What Holds Search Back: The Technology
7. What Holds Search Back: The Business
8. A Time to Believe
Conclusion: Searching the Future
Notes
References
Index
About the Author