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Wikia Search Alpha

By alex | Published: 1/7/2008
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 […]
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[OSI] Beyond Simple Search

By alex | Published: 7/23/2007
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 […]
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Zoominfo Knows My Stuff

By alex | Published: 6/26/2007
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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Access2Knowledge

By alex | Published: 4/18/2007
I have known for some time about the A2K conference, being held at Yale from April 21 to 23, and was hoping to drop in on it. I had even considered sending my Media Law students. But at $250 a pop, that’s pretty unlikely. (Besides, I’m going to a play–several, actually–that Saturday.) Conferences cost money–there’s […]
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