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Wednesday, 21st January 2004

Three Search Articles in The New York Times

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Three Articles in The New York Times
Three articles about search issues.
1) For a Fee, Wind Up Atop the Search Heap
Bob Tedeschi writes about people buying their own name as a keyword ad.
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2) Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites
Lisa Guernsey writes about new ways to keep track of your favorite web sites. A project mentioned in the article from the University of Washington was first noted on ResourceShelf last month. A link to the work of Microsoft's Susan Dumais, also mentioned in the article, was posted here in November. By the way, my favorite tool for saving web content continues to be SurfSaver. Not only can it save a page (in many cases better than a bookmark) but it also indexes and allows you to search the full text of the material. Scopeware is another tool I use. It allows you to quickly search numerous file types across your entire hard drive.
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3) Engineering Google Results to Make a Political Point
Tom McNichol writes about Google Bombing. The company maintains it's just a fad. In the section of the article discussing engines other than Google, the author fails to mention that Teoma's method for determining relevancy might make it less susceptible to bombing initiatives. Teoma's algorithm is also used by Ask Jeeves.
See Also: More comments in this 1/6 post .
See Also: Learn More About What Teoma's Algorithm in an Article About IBM's Clever (via Scientific American)
Check out this "classic" article about web searching. Several of the ideas developed for IBM's Clever are being utilized by Teoma.

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