Tag Archives: search

Google Search Plus Your World; seems to be the next big move in a long and painful war

Philip Man | 14 January 2012, 7:49 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

So, what is going on on the interwebs? Well, in the social and search segment, things are getting heavily mixed up. Google finally uses its monopoly to push Google+ with its Search Plus Your World. Basically, the search results will get personalised even more than before, based on your G+ account. These personalised results will appear in the organic search results. Next to that, if you search for a person or brand, Search Plus Your World will show G+ accounts before Facebook Pages or Tweets. I can hear you say ‘duh, obvious move’, however, lot of people act surprised and start panicking. Strange.

The Search Engine That Talks Back to You

Caroline Goralczyk | 20 March 2011, 10:30 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

With the mission of defining ‘the future of information consumption’, the founders of Qwiki, a self-proclaimed multimedia alternative to the text-based search provided by Google state to have launched the ‘next big thing’: a narrative search-tool based on the computer ‘telling you a story’ accompanied by videos and pictures about the term you are looking for. “Whether you’re planning a vacation on the web, evaluating restaurants on your phone, or helping with homework in front of the family Google TV, Qwiki is working to deliver information in a format that’s quintessentially human – via storytelling instead of search.”

The Missing Link: Google Alternatives

Ronen Shay | 11 March 2011, 5:48 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

“In the greatest leverage of the common user, Google turns traffic and link patterns generated by 2+billion searches a month into the organizing intelligence for a new economy.” – Kevin Kelly (Bruns 2008, 174)

Whether users realize it or not every Google search produces metadata that makes small incremental contributions to maintaining and improving the accuracy of Google’s…

Burning Questions

Natalie Dixon | 11 September 2010, 10:19 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Is Google the always-on, silent recorder of global zeitgeist? There’s Google Trends, which lists most searched-for sites and topics in the last week, month or year around the globe. This has been a useful tool for digital publishers to gauge popularity and areas of growth and/or interest on the web.
But Google’s autocomplete has also become a…

Google Instant: instantly distracted

Philip Man | 11 September 2010, 5:59 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , ,

A few days ago Google launched its new way of search that promised to be ‘faster than the speed of type’. Instant Search, the new way name, is sort of similar to the earlier search predictions, but this one is on steroids. It is designed to cut off a lot of time users spend on searching, allowing them…

A story about YouTube’s googlization and the hidden community

Simeona Petkova | 20 November 2009, 10:54 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,
<p style=”text-align: justify;”>“From You to Tube: YouTube’s googlization and the hidden community” is a short video created by Lasse Timmermann and me for the Digital Methods Seminar. It  follows the conceptual and methodological framework of “distilling the ‘textual grammar’ of a website history”<a href=”#_ftn1″>[1]</a> set

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Misspelling generator –> M1ssp3ll1ng G4n3r4t0r

Erik Borra | 26 December 2007, 2:54 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

In general, a search engine is presented as an objective tool, although it is its underlying code which defines the possible outcomes.

An integral part of a search engine is the spelling control which suggests alternative words if it suspects that you have misspelled your search terms. However, since the early days of Usenet, misspellings have been used as a way to overcome censorship.

Report on the Forum on Quaero

Erik Borra | 04 October 2007, 5:34 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As part of Open-Search, I was invited to participate in the Forum on Quaero at the Jan van Eyck Acadamie in Maastricht, September 29 and 30, 2007. The purpose of the forum was to question and investigate the European intentions to build a search engine and, broader, to investigate the cultural, political, and philosophical issues related to information…

New Network Theory – Siva Vaidhyanathan

Michael Stevenson | 28 June 2007, 12:08 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

New Network TheorySiva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System and currently associate professor at NYU, is here to talk about the Googlization of Everything.

Siva’s starting point is that Google is part of our lives, and we talk about in a way that…

The local Web, continued

Michael Stevenson | 02 January 2007, 7:39 pm | tags: , , ,

Placeblogger brings together blogs based on their location. Personally, I really am looking forward to aggregators like this one taking off. Maybe they will change how we perceive the blogosphere (i.e. beyond terms of A-list bloggers and the Long Tail). I remember wishing there was some service like this in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, as there were a number…