Posted in Blogging, Eh?, Searching on Sunday, March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
…or they may come back to haunt you. This is even more true in the Internet age.
Lately, on the basis of a very unscientific sampling, the most popular search engine terms people use to get to this blog are “why is carrot good for u”, “carrot is good for”, “what is carrot good for”, and [...]
Posted in Future, Searching, Solutions, Tech on Friday, February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
According to Read Write Web, the news organization Reuters has stepped into the semantic web arena with Open Calais. The application will perform semantic markup on unstructured HTML, extracts people, places, companies, and events, and annotates the metadata. RWW predicts better searching among other outcomes.
Posted in Searching, Solutions on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Carrot is an open source clustering search engine that pulls results from YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Search API, eTools Meta Search, Alexa Web Search, PubMed, OpenSearch, Lucene index, and SOLR. You can also choose which search algorithm you want to use (from Show Options).
Via Librarian of Fortune.
Posted in Searching, Word soup on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Music + Google = Musgle:
“To see Musgle in action just type a song title, or the artist name, or both in a search bar and hit ‘Enter’ - you will be redirected to the Google page with relevant search results. Click on one of those results, and you will have a chance to directly download [...]
Posted in Searching on Sunday, October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Via lo-fi librarian:
11 Alternative Englines for Custom Searches
I’ve found Grokker, Clusty, and Ask City helpful, ChaCha a disappointment (but maybe my assistant just had a bad day); the rest I haven’t tried – yet.
Via Librarian of Fortune:
Intelways. Handy. Have already shared the link.
Posted in Clever, Searching on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Via lo-fi librarian:
oSkope provides an interesting version of a visual search engine. I like how your results are displayed; a highly personal matter, I’m sure. I also agree with lo-fi librarian: it would be useful to be able to search more than one site at once.
But why, oh why, does the Amazon search engine suck [...]
Posted in Language, Searching, Usability on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
It seems that natural language searching is within our reach, if we can believe the recent report in Technology Review:
“The engine does more than merely accept queries asked in the form of a question. The company claims that the engine finds the best answer by considering the meaning and context of the question and related [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Museums, Searching, Usability, Web 2.0 on Monday, July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
A few interesting things found via What I Learned Today:
Laura Cohen wrote A Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto with several good practices on keeping with the times regardless of the type of library you’re in.
The WikiMindMap lets you browse Wikipedia graphically. Clicking links on the image takes you to the article in question. Nice for the folks [...]
Posted in Searching, Web 2.0 on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Another interesting link from What I Learned Today:
SearchCrystal searches across five engines, and arranges the results in a visual grid (if you can call a circle a grid). Each engine is color-tagged. The links (text, images, video, blogs, news, or tags) found by more than one engine get a multi-color blob next to it, and [...]
Posted in Career, Library 2.0, Searching on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Discovered via Stephen’s Lighthouse (Jun 11, 2007):
A listing of learning resources for Library 2.0 and related professional development. I’m going to be using this list!
