Archive for the 'search' Category
Searching as a Team
March 16th, 2008Technology Review - “Social software is proliferating online, but many of the most common Internet tools, such as search engines, are still used in isolation.” (via)
Search Survey
December 3rd, 2007Andy Oram - “The next time you have to search for information on any topic, try recording your efforts in a survey I’ve just put up.”
Search This
November 26th, 2007Technology Review - “Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them.”
Whoa!!!! (via)
Searchers are ‘Ask’ing More
November 23rd, 2007The latest search stats.
More people using Ask.com, which is always a good thing.
Hakia
November 5th, 2007Query an engine, meet others who asked the same thing.
Interesting concept.
Stephen Baker - “[A]ny pedophiles dumb enough to use it would probably bump into a cop or two.”
Advanced Searching Techniques
October 11th, 2007Genie Tyburski - “Seeking out facts, and even basic information on a topic, is relatively easy. Enter 2 or 3 relevant keywords at your favorite search engine. But going beyond the basic, or conducting investigative research, often means using advanced search commands, not to mention additional or more targeted finding tools. This article examines the [...]
More on People Searching
September 4th, 2007Paula J. Hane - “Over the last 2 months, my inbox has been deluged with story pitches, requests for briefings, and press releases—all about various new and updated people search tools. Apparently, it’s the new vertical search area that entrepreneurs have decided to tackle—all of them betting they can provide better and more accurate results [...]
Searching For People?
August 31st, 2007Verne Kopytoff - “Rather than scouring the entire Internet, these search engines troll only Web sites that are rich with personal information. The results they provide are individual profiles coupled with links to where users can find more details.”
2 Thumbs Up
August 2nd, 20075,000 Siskel, Ebert, and Roeper reviews. Searchable. (via)
Finding People
July 25th, 2007BusinessWeek: “These people-search engines sound like a stalker’s dream come true. But Spock and other such sites contend they return information a Web surfer could eventually find anyway; they just highlight it more effectively. And they don’t list phone numbers and addresses.”
Searches From Those With Strange Issues
July 13th, 2007Epiar - “These phrases are bizarre enough on their own, but what really makes me shake my head and wonder is imagining the situations these poor, unfortunate, confused people must find themselves in the first place.” (via)
Use More Than One Engine
June 26th, 2007This is a no brainer for librarians (I hope), but a recent report comes up with the stats.
The LIB says:
“But we, as library folk, should care. It means we should be using metasearch engines. Or we should be using more than one engine at a time. We should try to [...]
Humans are Searchers
June 23rd, 2007The NYT on human powered search. Mahalo gets a lot of attention. (via)
Life-Long Computer Skills
February 26th, 2007Great piece by Jakob Nielsen:
"Today’s search engine market leader might be gone in 20 years, and the search page layouts that currently dominate all search engines will almost certainly change. So, we shouldn’t teach the kids Google hacks.
That said, the general search concept will only become more important in the future, as we get [...]