A few months ago the Tech Team at dorthy.com was tasked with the creation of an in-house url shortening service which will enable users to share dorthy urls over services like twitter.
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Dorthy’s Tech team experiments with Twisted and Redis for Dorthy.com URL shortening service
Posted: Feb 10, 2010 at 12:31 am by adminMaking Common Sense out of Search with Semantics on dorthy.com
Posted: Jun 1, 2009 at 07:26 pm by Jim AndersonWe all live with keyword search and to varying degrees share common frustrations around our search experiences.
Out of necessity, we have had to grow skilled at filtering our own search results by continually tweaking our keywords, and searching within our searches. When the search engine misses the mark, our computer crashes, or we get distracted [...]
Why Search Is Broken, and How Semantic Search Fixes It
Posted: Mar 19, 2009 at 07:25 pm by Jim AndersonA human gets information by asking a question to get an answer, but online, we’ve been forced to learn “keyword” searches.
The thinking was that we could extract meaning from several abstract words (aka keywords) most closely related to what we were seeking. The problem is that this does not work in getting a real answer. [...]
