Archive for the 'search' Category
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 [...]
