A glimpse of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is back on stage. Just three months after annoucing the new hit iPad. This time he is announcing iPhone OS 4. As I watched the thin and frail-look Steve Job deliver his usual talk, I cannot help feeling sympathy. Afer all, he has had three successful major hits. It seems unnecessary for him [...]

Technology behind Online Advertising

Online advertising becomes instantly popular after Google launched its search-based ads. Google’s success comes from its high traffic where tens of millions of people visit the site daily to search for information. It also comes from Google’s large ad inventory, where millions of advertisers come to bid. Most importantly, search-based ads connects advertiser with the [...]

The Science of Ranking Search Results

When a user visits a website and types his search keywords, he expects to find relevant information immediately. We take such easy access to information for granted. Behind the scene, there is large amount of work going to retrieving the most relevant pages, and list them in order of relevance. This is called ranking of [...]

Fierce competition in mobile navigation

When you search for “navigator” or “navigation” in iPhone App store, more than 9 different apps from various companies would show up. At least 9 companies are competing in this market. All of them provide voice guide. Majority of them have real human voice, and a few low-priced one use Text to Speech (TTS). Below [...]

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