I do information retrieval research, which means that I try to figure
out how people use search engines, and use what I learn from that to build
better search algorithms. My goal is to take the short, one or two word query that
you enter into a search box and use it to identify a few relevant results from
among the billions of documents that make up the web. Something happened a few years ago, however, to change the way that I
think about search.
