Search Engine Jargons

Recently, I have been doing lot of literature review related to information retrieval research and thought of building my own list of jargons used in the field of ’search engines’.

Search Engine Related Jargons

Relevance  – Asking a computer scientist ‘what is relevance’ is same as asking a philosopher ‘what is knowledge’. Although, the term ‘relevance’ [...]

‘Save to My Map’ – A missing (hyper)link

Today, while trying to help one of my friend plan his Yellow Stone trip, I created a Google Map of one of my most memorable road trip (image below). For long, I have been thinking of creating a map of this road trip and today, finally, I got a chance and reason to do it.
Creating the map of my [...]

Migrating from OthAuth to CakePHP Auth

This post lists down steps for migrating from OthAuth component to CakePHP’s inbuild Authentication component (Auth Component).
Note about using these migration steps: I used OthAuth mainly for authentication purposes i.e. mainly for verifying a username and password. I never got involved with complex authorization. So, these steps are only applicable if you are using Auth component withouth ACL.

1. In [...]