Archive for the ‘Web search’ Category

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Thinking about Twitter: a submarine in the ocean of the Web

  Olivier Verbeke

“To me, Twitter is fast becoming my personal submarine and periscope to the ocean of the World Wide Web, the personal areas I want to go to defined by my relationships to people and ideas. It doesn’t mean that I don’t use the rest of the web: Twitter is an adjunct to the web, a very important adjunct, but an adjunct nevertheless. The way I use Twitter teaches me something, something about the way things may be going.”

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Monday, December 1st, 2008

Yahoo Launches “Vertical Lens” Search Through BOSS

  Thomas Moreau

“When we questioned Yahoo as to why they dropped Search Builder for BOSS, Yahoo told us:

BOSS vertical search engine is more powerful. Not only it can support Search Builder’s functionality, it has the following features

  • It gets “structured” content from customer sites to allow searchers to navigate and refine their searches.
  • It gets proprietary content in real time; the content is searchable immediately
  • It builds a vertical lens of the web for the customer and blends the results from this lens with the customer data.
  • It customizes ranking based on customer needs: ranking can be recency based, popularity based, or social based”

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Are Our Brains Becoming “Googlized?”

  Fabienne Vandekerkove

Are our brains being rewired by using the Internet? The evidence tends to be pointing that way.
As somebody interested in how the mind works, I read with interest the results of a recent study at UCLA that used the sexiest research tool around today, fMRI scanning. fMRI allows researchers to see which parts of the brain are active when participants are exposed to different stimuli. And for the first time I’m aware of, this was used to track brain activity while people engaged in various online tasks, including searching.

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