{"id":1112,"date":"2008-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/09\/16\/1050\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T22:00:00","slug":"1050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/09\/16\/1050\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh, Oh &#8211; It&#8217;s Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg (back in 2005) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/marklogic.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/ut-oh-its-magic.html\">Uh, Oh &#8211; It&#8217;s Magic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;I\u2019ll tell you one thing that I think is wrong with search: magic. If there\u2019s one lesson I learned in 20+ years in the data world, it\u2019s that magic doesn\u2019t sell. Customers don\u2019t like magic.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] I chuckle when I see search vendors chest-thumping about Bayesian this-or-that in their marketing. I majored in math at Berkeley and barely understand Bayesian inferencing. Will your average customer do any better? When vendors think they\u2019re impressing customers with their algorithms, they\u2019re just scaring them.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg (back in 2005) \u2013 Uh, Oh &#8211; It&#8217;s Magic: &#8222;I\u2019ll tell you one thing that I think is wrong with search: magic. If there\u2019s one lesson I learned in 20+ years in the data world, it\u2019s that magic doesn\u2019t sell. Customers don\u2019t like magic. [\u2026] I chuckle when I see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}