That sounds like a pretty good result for this kind of research. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Joshua Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good find. > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Randall Leeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hopefully useful. Reading through it now and will report back. >> >> http://www2007.org/paper570.php >> >> Enjoy. > > > So I kept getting this dirty feeling throughout the article that it was a > lot of sketchy work ("let's see what happens if we throw this in!") for only > a little result. Like, three or four brilliant minds at Google spent > considerable time and effort to get a 38% improvement in click-through rates > on recommended articles over the baseline popularity algorithm. Is that > actually worth it, or am i just being an (overly idealistic) n00b? >
