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Manning: Taming Text
* When, where, and why to use text-taming techniques
* Important open-source libraries; how to use them and how they perform
* Incorporating libraries into a working text processing application
* Important references for further readin
(tags: book text-mining)

Inside Facebook [...]

Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point?
“Keyword search engines return haystacks, but what we really are looking for are the needles . The problem with keyword search such as Google’s approach is that only highly cited pages make it into the top results.”
(tags: search)

My Life on Facebook as a Woman and Why Social Network Advertising Doesn’t Work | CenterNetworks
“Do you seriously mean to tell me that all they can sell for a man is sex ads? Facebook knows more about me than many of my friends do, and should be able to easily provide ads that benefit me [...]