Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Marti Hearst: Why are you always No. 1?

I have nothing against Marti Hearst. I met with her once a few years back on the campus of UC Berkeley where she teaches in the School of Information Management Systems. And while this document is a good overview of text mining, I can't figure out why Google has ranked it as the No. 1 hit for the search "text mining" for at least the past two years.
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  1. Anonymous10:51 PM, November 23, 2005

    It is interesting to look at the results on other engines (Yahoo!, Alta Vista, Ask) where Wikipedia and Mark Sharp seem to win out. A search engine that could report back a number of different definitions and explain those differenes - now that would be a great illustration of text mining...

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  2. Anonymous7:01 PM, January 21, 2007

    How interesting! I exactly thought the same. While this is a good paper it makes no sense to me how it could be ranked number one on Google. Perhaps Marti has some good friends at the big Goog.

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