Tag: search

Listing for Success

Unlike optimization for organic search, optimization for local search at the major engines is in a much less developed state.

Import del.icio.us into Google

this is awesome. i would love for my bookmarks to inform my searches. talk about powerful personalization! once they have enough CPU to calculate a separate page rank per person, maybe.

Image Search

presents the concept of semantic query by example, which seems a useful extension of QBE

TweakGDS

customize the results to display anywhere from 1 to 10000 results per page.

News At 7

a system that automatically generates a virtual news show using search and related images. it then reads the news using a game character and TTS

NLP Search Hype

nice rant on the undelivered promise of natural language search

Pinging Service API

The Google Blog Search Pinging Service API allows users who frequently update their blog to programattically inform Google Blog Search about changes to their blogs. Blogging provider admins can also use this API to notify Google of changes to blogs on their platform(s). To set up automated pinging of Google Blog Search, create either an XML-RPC Client or a REST Client which sends requests as noted below. It doesn’t matter which method you choose for notification; both are handled in the same way.

this would be useful for other web content too (news items, say). unfortunately this will be filled with splogs

Google Code Search

i can already see the IDE with a code completion wizard: “i see you are using a regexp. do you want to search for regexp code to steal?”

searchmash

a google skunkworks search site. i tried it and could not find any new features

Network Arts

paper by the artists with the closed capturing related images video wall at nextfest

In this article, we explore a new role for the computer in art as a reflector of popular culture. Moving away from the static audiovisual installations of other artistic endeavors and from the traditional role of the machine as a computational tool, we fuse art and the Internet to expose cultural connections people draw implicitly but rarely consider directly. We describe several art installations that use the World Wide Web as a reflection of cultural reality to highlight and explore the relations between ideas that compose the fabric of our everyday lives.