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Information Retrieval Engineer

Job Responsibilities Rapid prototyping of IR related product features on very large datasets Design and evolution of search algorithms Data quality and search results quality analysis Keeping on top of current IR research and practice Required Skills Practical knowledge of Information Retrieval and text search Practical experience converting papers into code 3+ years in C++…
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Two new ways to query Topsy: site and from

Topsy now supports the special site and from queries - a powerful way of discovering links posted on Twitter. site:domain limits results to links on the domain. For instance, site:wikipedia.org shows the most popular wikipedia articles on Twitter, site:flickr.com shows the most popular photos posted on flickr. site:amazon.com shows the most popular products. site queries…
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A shiny update to Topsy - Time, Tweeps, Trackbacks and more

We are excited to bring you the first major update to Topsy. 1. The right-time window Topsy segments search results into time-windows - all time, month, week, day, hour.¬† Starting with this release, we automatically pick the most recent time window that contains a statistically significant top result.¬† The top result will be fresh and…
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Hello, world!

Topsy is a new search engine, and is now open to the public! The first search engines saw the Web as a collection of documents, and indexed and searched for keywords in those documents. They ranked results based on how well a document matched search terms. Google had a new approach, and saw the Web…
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