“We are sorry to inform you...” in IEEE Computer: the rejection letters some highly respected scholars once received (Dijkstra, Codd, Turing, Hoare, and Rivest-Shamir-Adelman). #dontgiveup pubpeer.com/publications/7…

If you're planning to come to Madrid for #SIGIR2022, you should consider getting the most out of an #IberianSummer 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 While you're in the peninsula, #ESSIR2022 is taking place in Lisbon, just a few hundred km away the following week (18-23 July)! bit.ly/3FHGq4X

Fifty years ago, a landmark paper of search engine research was published: Karen Sparck Jones's "A statistical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval". The paper described Inverse Document Frequency (IDF). emerald.com/insight/conten…

A survey on Gender balance in Informatics has been developed within Eugain19122. Please participate in the 10-15 minutes survey, before 20 June 2022 via the following link: surveymonkey.com/r/VHVLNF9

Women in IR, with the sponsorship of Microsoft research, offers funding to support participation of female students and faculty SIGIR 2025. Due to the limited amount of funding, applications will be selected on a first come, first served basis. #SIGIR2022 forms.gle/m7jxpxJehBAt2x…

As promised, here’s the open access #sigir2022 SIGIR 2025 proceedings! Open access is available only via this page, not directly thru the Digital Library, so please share the link widely! sigir.org/sigir2022/prog…

#ECIR2023 Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers is Out We welcome PhD students in IR to present & discuss their research with senior researchers in the field. Expression of Interest: Nov. 6, 2022 DC paper submission: Nov. 13, 2022 DC day: April 2, 2023 ecir2023.org/doctoral.html?…

Daniel Erasmus Elon Musk "Vox populi vox Dei" is from a quotation saying the opposite of voice of people is voice of God: "...riotiousness of the crowd is always very close to madness" archive.org/details/little…

#ChatGPT simply makes up scholar references that do not exist.

Call for bids to host #essir2024 Deadline 5 March 2023. More info at essir.eu/assets/charter… CLEF ACM SIGIR ECIR 2023 ECIR 2022 SIGIR 2025

Very glad to share that "The Evolution of Web Search User Interfaces - An Archaeological Analysis of Google Search Engine Result Pages", with Bruno Oliveira has been accepted, as a full paper, at #CHIIR2023 .

Very glad to share that "From 10 blue links pages to feature-full Search Engine Results Pages. Analysis of the temporal evolution of SERP features", with Bruno Oliveira has been accepted, as a short paper, at #CHIIR2023 .

Brilliant interactive piece on “trickle-up economics”. pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-s…

Today marks the end of an era. Sadly, we've been forced to pull Twitterrific from both the iOS and Mac App Stores. Twitter’s unexplained revocation of our API access has left the app with no path forward. Please read our blog for more information🖖 blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitte…

An interesting comparison of how Google and Bing SERPS have changed over the years. arxiv.org/abs/2301.08042 I'm surprised that (as far as I can recollect) no one has carried out this comparison before.

The CORE conference ranking is seeking expressions of interest from people wanting to serve on its research area committees, which advise on rankings. If you are interested in serving, the EOI form is here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

This is pretty impressive example of how developers can bring multiple Cloudflare offerings together into one app. Massive props to Celso Martinho and Sven Sauleau for putting this together 🙌 blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-wil…

PhD students, this is for you! FDIA - The Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access at #ESSIR2023 in Vienna, Austria. Here you can discuss your work with senior researchers. We are calling for papers - 2023.essir.eu/FDIA/ ESSIR (w/ Haiming Liu & Yashar Moshfeghi)