BIT320 Remix: search Archives

Hotwiring Your Search Engine

I think this directly relates to what we're trying to do by linking with our blogs. The new job is called SEO and it's worth a lot of money. Want to work from home?

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Gmail File Space (gspace) v0.1: This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2 GB) for file storage. It acts as a remote machine. You can transfer files between your hard drive and gmail. This is similar to "Gmail Drive" on windows platform. Your gm

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

What time is it?

Click anywhere on the map to see what the local time is

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Analytics

Get Stats about your Site

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

NewsIsFree: Your Personal News Portal

Use RSS feeds to create your new portal

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Blogdigger : RSS / Atom Search Engine - Search Blogs

Search RSS feeds

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Open-Source Browser's New Version Comes Loaded With Options

Firefox is playing with fire and not getting burned...but are these options cutting edge? Try out and see.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 12/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Craigslist

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive

Feminist Career Center

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive

execSearches.com

the premier job board helping nonprofit, education, healthcare and public organizations recruit fundraising, mid-level and executive professionals

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive

Internweb.com

Online Source of internship

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive

GreenNet

GreenNet supports a progressive community working for Peace, the Environment, Gender Equality and Social Justice, through the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs).

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive

Idealist.org

Non-profit job listing and information from all around the country

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive

American Rehetoric

Top 100 Speeches

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/03/2005 | Original | Archive

FindSounds

a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/03/2005 | Original | Archive

TiVo to develop TV advertising search service - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com

Now we want to search for specific advertisements? Actually, not a bad idea...

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 11/28/2005 | Original | Archive

oh Matchmaker, oh make me a sibling

I ran across a really interesting article at the Nytimes.com regarding children of sperm donors and their quest for finding their half-siblings. They are connecting through sites that allow them to insert their contact information, sperm donor number and sperm bank number. Such sites as Donor Sibling Registry.com. Mothers of children are talking with other mothers and older children are connecting with their sisters, brothers, and so on.

When I hear about these kinds of stories I am always amazed by the power of the internet and how it is able to connect people from all over the world easily, crossing things that even sometimes humans have a hard time doing. I think that’s why I love looking at pictures from different parts of the world because you can.

These children are able to find some sort of connection, if they want to. It also makes me think of the high number of children that are currently being adopted from a huge number of asian countries. They will be offered a better life but at the same time, they might feel like they are missing something and want to search back. And who knows, maybe one day they will be able to do the same thing?

Sidenote: I know its a bit different because there are more anounomity issues around real adoption. But doesn’t everyone have the right to know who and where they come from, doesn’t that just add another facet to who you are in the end?

In Shady Waters, 11/19/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Slashdot | Search Engine Results Relatively Fair

"The Economist and PhysicsWeb report on a study from Indiana University claiming that search engines have an egalitarian effect that gives new pages a greater chance to be discovered, compared to what would be the case in the absence of search engines."

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/19/2005 | Original | Archive

A VC: Google Is Lame

But in many of their recent initiatives, Google has introduced a delay between submit and display. And that's just lame in this day and age of instant recall.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/16/2005 | Original | Archive

35 Million Consumers Used Web Search For Travel Planning in April 2005

In April, 35 million U.S. consumers used a search engine to initiate travel planning, and those who bought travel online ultimately spent an estimated $6.6 billion in the category during the eight week analysis period.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/16/2005 | Original | Archive

Lifehacker

Often tech-related, Lifehacker is full of tips to make life easier--from building your own solar-powered generator to quitting a nail-biting habit.

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 11/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Technology power taken to another level: Google running for president?

Google opens a new office in DC to get more power for its vision.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 11/07/2005 | Original | Archive

IBM and Google team up to make Corporate Searches Easier

Sometimes info gets lost in different departments, let me find it for you...

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 10/29/2005 | Original | Archive

Inform.com....more than just a searchengine

Better at variations in searches than Google

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 10/21/2005 | Original | Archive

I hope it's not negative

LexisNexis brings it on with negative news search query

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 10/16/2005 | Original | Archive

A Better Way To Search? - Forbes.com

Yahoo tries to catch up to Google with Yahoo MyWeb - but is it as great as they say it is?

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 10/10/2005 | Original | Archive

Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal

So, this is an interesting take on what the value of a link is based on AOL's purchase of Weblogs Inc., a blog publishing network. Are these the types of metrics we should be using in business? What price visibility?

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 10/08/2005 | Original | Archive

How stuff works.com

A website to answer all your questions of how things work

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 10/06/2005 | Original | Archive

WireHog

A way to share your files with your friends (integrated with facebook) note: too bad I don't have friends

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 10/06/2005 | Original | Archive

Workbench: Throw the Book at Google

"As an armchair copyright lawyer, I can't figure out how it matters that Google grabbed one book with a bot and grabbed the other with a scanner ... If Google Print is illegal, wouldn't Google be illegal as well?" Good point!

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 10/04/2005 | Original | Archive

All the cool ways people have used Google maps for.

Mashing up the googl'in way.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 10/03/2005 | Original | Archive

Feel like trying a new engine to rev?

A list of different search engines to mix up your life.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 10/03/2005 | Original | Archive

Rollyo-Creating your own search engine

"Are you tired of wading though thousands of irrelevant search results to get to the information you want? Ever wish you could narrow your search to sites you already know and trust? With Rollyo, you can easily create your own custom search engines, and e

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 09/30/2005 | Original | Archive

Kind of partial to angel fire

Google's little enemies

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo is some trouble: information sharing, adware support, and customer trust blinks away

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive

Wondir.com

Where your questions can be answered by other confused people like you

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Answers

Questioners set their price for answers that they can't find through the search engines

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive

Ho Ho Ho How to Search?

So in class on thrusday we happend to cover how search engines search. Or we hypothosized. I happen to be reading a NY Times article about an alternative, when the algorithums, keywords, relevance, links, and arrows fail you.

One such solution is Google Answers, answering questions for people who have been let down by wonderful search engines that we use. Any sort of questions, doesn’t matter. You ask the questions, set the price you are willing to pay, $200 max, and wait for a willing expert to skim through the questions and select yours from the pot. The experts get a 75% commission for answering, researching, or find some sort of solution to your horribly difficult question.

Another option is Ingenio.com, where instead of asking questions. You pick a expert and send a query and await a call back. Each expert has per minute call rates and they will spend as much time as you need, and just charge you in the end.

And finally for the frugal, Wondir.com, is a no charge site, where anyone can respond, but people who answer can get tipped if they provide well and not only that they are able to enter contests to win cool things, like…tote bags…my personal favorite.

So here we have it. People trying to move past search engines and instead of organizing the web, we now just pay others to search through the mass for us. As always, remember to tip well.

In Shady Waters, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Search Engine Journal » Ask Jeeves Will Be Ask.com - Diller Confirms

say goodbye to the butler, now it's just ask.com

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive

Search Links: Search Engines Worldwide

popular search engines in various categories

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive

Ask Jeeves CEO: "We Are Focused on Core Search"

After acquiring Ask Jeeves, AIC plans to fous on building the search engine. But is it going anywhere?

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive

Microsoft Quashes Search Relevancy Report

The important point here is that microsoft is not making a dent in the search business, and by extension one can understand why they re-orged. Competition has moved off of the desktop and into search. A more general issue of how you measure performance.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/22/2005 | Original | Archive

Google's Big Problem, or Google vs the Social

Google search is algorithmic, meaning no explicit editors. However, Google's use of links to determine relevance means there are many implicit editors. I wonder if the novelty problem the author mentions is not due to freshness, a real google problem.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/22/2005 | Original | Archive

start.com and our remix

JB asks the question:

He said that when he includes links to our re-mix on his interactive homepages, it increases the likelihood of our site showing up in searches like Google. Why? I don’t know a lot about how to make your site show up in a search. I thought I understood that the more your site is visited, the more likely it is to show up in Google. But what does a link on Start.com have to do with this?

The simple, intuitive answer is that the more things pointing to you, the easier you are to find.

A more complex answer states that two key search engine criteria are relevance and coverage. Relevance is determined by semantic analysis of your content (i.e., analysis of your content for meaning) and whether other sites deemed to be relevant link to you. Therefore, links from other sites help.

Coverage is how much of the relevant stuff the search engine has in its index. As regards coverage, consider the problem faced by search engines. There are over 11 billion web pages and over 17 million blogs. How does the search engine know when there is a good new one. One way is for people to start linking in either their online feedreaders or on their web pages.

I provide a case study of this with a class we ran over the summer here.

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/22/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

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