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Google Ngrams: in the beginning was the word search
October 3, 2011… information and make it universally accessible and easy to use.
Nowadays, the big-friendly-search-giant sometimes seems more interested in irritating Mark Zuckerberg than promoting universal knowledge. But, just occasionally, Google gets back to basics.
In 2004 Google started digitizing books. Since then, 15 million volumes have been digitized by OCR software into Google’s virtual library. Recently, Harvard scholars Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel decided to try …
Searching Questions: how good is Google?
April 6, 2011… screen, the goofy logo, the incomprehensible “I’m feeling lucky” button.
What did you search for? (if you were a teenage boy, don’t answer that). In the bad old days of dial-up, Google was a (relatively) fast, flashing and seemingly benevolent oasis of free information.
These days Google is big. Really big. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are both multi-billionaires. 64% of all web searches start beneath those famous letters. To millions of users “Google” and “the …
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crowd, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, google, Larry Page, Searching, Sergey Brin, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Stack Overflow, Web search engine, Wolfram Alpha | 4 CommentsSpeakerText: serious about subtitles
March 23, 2011… But one part of the modern movie experience is still stuck in the VHS era. The only way to search inside an online video is to sit down and watch it through.
Off the radar
The internet was originally designed for text documents (that’s what happens when you put academics in charge of technology). Search engines still only recognize text: video content is invisible.
Most providers solve this problem by SEO-ing the web pages that contain videos (“Search engine optimization” …
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Barack Obama, Crocodile Dundee, crowd, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, google, JavaScript, Matt Mireles, microwork, Search engine optimization, SpeakerText, youtube | 1 CommentHuman Flesh Search Engines: The Most Dangerous Game
August 30, 2010… (or looked after a two year old ) knows, nothing is scarier than cute kids.
The Human Flesh Search Engine (HFS) sounds awfully sinister. But far from being a deadly disease or a machine from the Saw series, it is simply a term used to describe searches that are conducted with the help of humans (as opposed to the ones carried out through a search engine like Google).
A tiger in the grass?
A good demonstration of the power of HFS is now known as the South China Tiger Event. In …
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China, community, crowsourcing, distributed work, engines, HFS, search, South China Tiger Event | 2 CommentsMichael S Hart: a man of many words
October 18, 2011 Share As people everywhere continue to mourn the loss of Steve Jobs (mainly by buying yet another iPhone ), spare a thought for another recently departed tech visionary: Michael S Hart .
Like Jobs, Hart was a pioneer amongst geeks. Way back in 1971 (when “the Internet” had a grand total of 100 users) Hart founded Project Gutenberg , a non-profit enterprise to …
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