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Tweets
- @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
- Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
- This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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Tag Archives: Search Engines
Why Google Rules?
Hal Varian, who is generally someone worth listening to, has a post up on the Google Blog about why he thinks his company (yes, he works for Google) continues to dominate the market. After dismissing economies of scale, lock-in, and network effects, he goes on to say: The answer, at least in my opinion, is [...]
Wikia Search Alpha
I’ve had a chance to play around with Search Wikia over the weekend. The New York Times provides a broad overview today. One of the arguments of my book is that a lack of transparency is one–though only one–of the socially dysfunctional forces of the current crop of search engines. Google sometimes reminds me of [...]
[OSI] Beyond Simple Search
Sorry, this last set of notes on a breakout session at the open source conference somehow ended up stuck on my laptop. Moderator Eric Haseltine started us out with the premise: “Search is great, but sometimes it sucks.” As always, this is a highly filtered, non-transcript-level set of reflections. Presenters: * John Howard, Deputy Associate [...]
Zoominfo Knows My Stuff
I’ve been looking a lot at search lately, and revisited Zoominfo, a site that was designed to automatically generate personal profiles based on stuff out on the web. I found mine amusing. It has a few references to me. It claims, for example that I am: * An Assistant Professor & Grad Director of Informatics [...]

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