David Warlick's commentary on Google's SearchWiki -- a way to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results.
The report (PDF), sponsored by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee, tries to get beyond the stereotypes to find out just how good young people are with information technology, and what the implications are for schools and libraries. Based on log analysis from British Library web sites and search tools, along with a "virtual" longitudinal study based on literature review
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you’ve made.
Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them.
How Does a Google Query Work? How many machines does it hit? How
many clusters are there? How many Google DNS servers? How many data
centers? I know Google is famously secretive about this information, but
I'd love to understand just how the results page gets back to me, with as
much detail as possible. Many people take guesses about this, but I'm
looking for some real concrete data.
Basic Search Engine for Web, Images, and Video. Some content may not be good for school-age children. Monitor Carefully!
There are a lot of things you and your students can do to improve search results in Google. Did you know the search engine will also function as a calculator? See this quick reference page for some search tips and tricks.
If you don't already use this, you should.
You can help to improve the accuracy of Google Image search by labeling
random images from the web with a randomly assigned partner.
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David Warlick's commentary on Google's SearchWiki -- a way to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results.
The report (PDF), sponsored by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee, tries to get beyond the stereotypes to find out just how good young people are with information technology, and what the implications are for schools and libraries. Based on log analysis from British Library web sites and search tools, along with a "virtual" longitudinal study based on literature review
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you’ve made.
Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them.
How Does a Google Query Work? How many machines does it hit? How many clusters are there? How many Google DNS servers? How many data centers? I know Google is famously secretive about this information, but I'd love to understand just how the results page gets back to me, with as much detail as possible. Many people take guesses about this, but I'm looking for some real concrete data.
You can help to improve the accuracy of Google Image search by labeling random images from the web with a randomly assigned partner.
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