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By: Lakhwinder

Lakhwinder — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:10:07 +0000

Joe your airticle is benifical for me. Thanks

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:29:31 +0000

No trouble Mike! I get asked this question about the 2 NLP things quite a lot and I’ve refined my answer bit by bit – I didn’t know about the Mind Control website, thanks for the tip.

CJ’s last blog post..TGIF – (OvO)

By: Mike SEM

Mike SEM — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:16:30 +0000

Hello CJ and Joe, I wasn’t trying to be anti-establishment or anything, I appreciate you guys comments. I know neuro-linguistic programming only came along in the 70′s, however the popular abbreviation, NLP has been associated with it ever since. Either way it doesn’t really matter.
Frankly, it has more to do with manipulation of the human mind and that’s perhaps why it scores such high marks with the internet marketing crowd, just ask Frank Kern what his Mind Control website is all about. He probably won’t tell you but his domain name says it all.

By: CJ

CJ — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:05:31 +0000

Mike sorry for mistyping your name! CJ's last blog post..How does a search engine know what words mean?

By: CJ

CJ — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:04:41 +0000

Hello, thank you all for your comments! Hey Mile SEM, it’s not my abbreviation, it’s been NLP for “natural language processing” since the mid-40′s, Neuro-linguistic programming came along in the mid-70′s so I reckon they should change their acronym not us Also I haven’t seen neuro-linguistic programming used in search (IR), seeing as it’s to do with interpersonal communication and self-awareness. I think this would rather be an HCI topic, and maybe applied to AI.

CJ’s last blog post..How does a search engine know what words mean?

By: Joe Hall

Joe Hall — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:31:38 +0000

@Mike thanks for the compliments, but CJ is the real guru here, shes the one i interviewed. All I did was think of a few questions to ask. You can learn more about CJ at her blog http://www.scienceforseo.com/ Joe Hall's last blog post..IM Spring Break is Going to Make You Pee Your Pants!

By: Mike SEM

Mike SEM — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:35:35 +0000

Joe, your article was quite informative and on point. With Google’s acquisition of Applied Semantics in 2003, the search arena has been changed forever, just look at the last few Google dances for proof.

One caveat, I believe that the abbreviation NLP cannot be used here since it is already established in search as meaning Neuro Linguistic Programming which is not quite the same as Natural Language Processing as you described here. Perhaps something like ALP would be more accurate and less confusing. A for artificial, since computers are doing the semantic evaluations? We are still light years away from anything close to the human mind’s ability to do this.

Think of the fruit apple, now Google it and you’ll find that Wikipedia is the first to mention the fruit in the #5 position. Everything else is about Apple, the company. You are correct, it is an fascinating area of study.

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By: Paul R

Paul R — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:16:44 +0000

Is Google not moving in this direction? I can’t imagine that they would let a competitor like this come into the field.

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By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:31:19 +0000

Good stuff!

I’m having flashbacks to the launch of Fortune Interactive. My then excellent co-founder Mike Marshall knew this stuff inside out, and we built technology based on NLP/LSI. Mike’s still doing a lot in that field: http://www.semscout.com/index-1.html