Steve Ballmer Conversation
October 21, 2007
Probably my favorite, at least, the most fun. Check out what happens when I ask Steve about search (about 21 minutes in). Just amazing.
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“ Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? What's up with all these spammers? ...”» - says
“ This would be an invaluable tool for searching for things like "Iraq war". But it would also help in ...”» - says
“ That way, instead of seeing some lame "universal" search, with all the positives and all the negativ ...”» - says
“ When I run a search, I should be able to click a button (or enter as a command-line option) the fact ...”» - says
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“ Another example: There exists research on "sentiment analysis", discovering whether the tone of a we ...”» - says
“ it would indeed be a leap from "find" to "understand". Perhaps this is the promise of the semanti ...”»
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Very good interview! I am amused at Steve Ballmer's response to the search question, though. Microsoft isn't the toddler--MS has tried to do search longer than Google has. So if they are the underdog now, it's not because they haven't had the opportunity to excel, they just haven't taken it seriously.
Fantastic! (Michael Moore said *what*?!?)
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