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Carrot2 Search
Search is likely a technology-based opportunity most of us have given up exploring. We use Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo and leave it at that. Perhaps if we feel especially inquisitive we use more than one of these options. Search is … Continue reading
Justice Department suit may impact you
Let me start with this. You and I are partly responsible for this situation. We spend our time searching and on other social media services and do so without sending money to the companies providing these services. We do have … Continue reading
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Google Alerts (revisited)
I week or so ago I generated a post reacting to the claim that successful bloggers updated their posts. This was kind of a revelation to me. In fact, in continuing to think about this I think I remember a … Continue reading
Search blogs
I just read one of those year-end wrapup posts in this case focused on blogging trends in 2018. If you are interested, I provide the link. It was my impression that this survey focused on mostly paid bloggers and the … Continue reading
Should have stopped with PageRank
I was a fan of Google and Google search from the beginning because their algorithm for prioritizing search results made sense to me. Pagerank was similar to citation frequency which academics recognize as an indication of the importance of their … Continue reading
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Demonstrating the filter bubble
Five or six years ago or so, Eli Pariser wrote a book entitled the Filter Bubble. The core idea in this book was that online information companies personalize our online experience serving our personal priorities rather than presenting the world … Continue reading