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Gboard: The Ultimate iPhone Keyboard?

Gboard: The Ultimate iPhone Keyboard?

Google recently released a new app for iOS called Gboard which expands the keyboard with a built in search engine. With Gboard Google makes it possible to search without a browser. Instead of leaving the app you’re currently using...
By Maud Looij on 09/19/16 Comments Off on Gboard: The Ultimate iPhone Keyboard?
Semantic Search Servants: Facebook’s M and the new way of searching the web

Semantic Search Servants: Facebook’s M and the new way of searching the web

“You think I’m weird?” “Kind of.” “Why?” “Well, you seem like a person but you’re just a voice in a computer.” – Theodore meets his new virtual assistant, whom he later falls in love with (Jonze, Her). Facebook M...
By Elias Gorter on 09/15/15 Comments Off on Semantic Search Servants: Facebook’s M and the new way of searching the web
Help! I need a doctor!

Help! I need a doctor!

Healthcare apps are on the rise. According to Research2Guidance, 500 million smartphone users worldwide will be using a healthcare app by 2015. It will change the way healthcare is delivered in the future, but also increases the risk of...
By Sophie Waterloo on 10/03/12 Comments Off on Help! I need a doctor!

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

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.html">Search Plus Your World. Basically, the search...
By Philip Man on 01/14/12 Comments Off on Google Search Plus Your World; seems to be the next big move in a long and painful war

The Search Engine That Talks Back to You

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...
By Caroline Goralczyk on 03/20/11 2
The Missing Link: Google Alternatives

The Missing Link: Google Alternatives

“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...
By Ronen Shay on 03/11/11 2

Burning Questions

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...
By Natalie Dixon on 09/11/10 Comments Off on Burning Questions
Google Instant: instantly distracted

Google Instant: instantly distracted

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...
By Philip Man on 09/11/10 4

A story about YouTube’s googlization and the hidden community

<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’...
By Simeona Petkova on 11/20/09 1

Misspelling generator –> M1ssp3ll1ng G4n3r4t0r

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...
By Erik Borra on 12/26/07 2

Report on the Forum on Quaero

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...
By Erik Borra on 10/04/07 Comments Off on Report on the Forum on Quaero

New Network Theory – Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva 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...
By Michael Stevenson on 06/28/07 3

The local Web, continued

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...
By Michael Stevenson on 01/02/07 Comments Off on The local Web, continued
Open-search kick-off workshop

Open-search kick-off workshop

Google is still maintaining it’s strong number one position in the search engine landscape. Microsoft is trying to get back by launching it’s new Live Search service, but are they strong enough to overthrow the almighty Google? This is...
By Anne Helmond on 11/20/06 1