Adventures of an InfoMage in Training

	Monday, June 30, 2003

False Oracles: Consumer Reaction to Learning the Truth About How Search Engines Work Gary Price posts about an interesting study on what consumers (don't) know about search engines and how they work. 4:05:21 PM    comment []

	Tuesday, June 24, 2003

In Other Search Related News... On Search: Intelligence. Here’s the problem: searching for words isn’t really what you want to do. You’d like to search for ideas, for concepts, for solutions, for answers. Instead, your typical search engine moronically sorts through its postings, and tries to solve your problems by looking at which words appear where, and how often, and so on. What we’d really like is an intelligent search engine. This essay is mostly about why we’re not likely to get one any time soon.... [ongoing] "Clustering" Search Engine Worth a Review. Vivisimo, co-winner of the 2002 Search Engine Watch award for Best Meta Search Engine, is featured in this new article,... [beSpacific] New Search Toolbars. (23 Jun) Two separate search services -- Dogpile and Hotbot... [TVC Alert] 8:45:56 PM    comment []

What's New in Google's World There's a lot going on with and around Google this week. Love it or hate it, you can't afford to ignore Google! Google Ads. Interesting write-up chez Zawodny about the Google AdSense program; pretty well anyone can sign up and put Google ads on their site, and get paid when someone clicks on the ads. So I signed up, although I don’t plan to run ’em for the moment. Except on this essay right here, along with some commentary on the program (soundbite: looks pretty reasonable so far).... [ongoing] MapQuest Teams with Google. (23 Jun) MapQuest users will now find search results from Google....[TVC Alert] Vivisimo Could Improve Google. (23 Jun) Even those who gush over Google will admit it returns... [TVC Alert] Google.rss. Outer-Court links to Google.rss !, a new tool (currently in beta) which will deliver Google results via RSS to your aggregator. While this seems useful on the surface, I'm not to sure how much of the Google results are listed here (looks like just the top 10), but it may be worth playing with. All of the search syntaxes are available, including link:.[Library Stuff] Google calls in the language police [LISNews.com]   8:43:05 PM    comment []

	Sunday, June 22, 2003

MSNBOT— The MSN Search Prototype Web Crawler This was the link I was looking for yesterday when I posted about MSN's new SearchBot. Additional questions can be sent to msnbot@microsoft.com :-) And here's some insider information from an anonymous source (via Scripting News). 11:24:53 AM    comment []

	Saturday, June 21, 2003

MSN vs. Google: Latest Buzz on the Web I suppose there's a bit of irony that I'm just going to point the Google News results for all the latest buzz about MSN launching their new search bot ;-) 8:17:27 PM    comment []

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