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A blog about the future of web work!

This blog records experiences using new metaphors for web work: "collecting, organizing, and publishing" (vs. "surfing" or "searching"); "browsing in context" to organize web topic collections; and "web farming" to produce better crops of URLs. We also highlight phenomena of interest to web researchers and discuss "twURLing" using our twURL tool.

Saturday, May 31, 2003

 An Internet metaphors project at Rutgers
Chris Sherman's Search Day leads to an online journal of  interesting papers on Internet Research. This paper on Internet metaphors is now on my must-read list for future blogging.
12:15 pm pdt

An experiment: do search engines have multiple personalities?
Summary: Search engine indexing and ranking mechanisms favor "sunny personalities", where a naive query leads to the best news about a subject and more astute questioning is required to reveal controversies and the darker side of the queried subject. By analogy, search engines might respond with personalities more like a human subject area expert who provides more sides to a subject as well as means to evaluate the query responses. An experiment shows that 3 search engines - Google, Teoma, and AllTheWeb - exhibit dominantly "sunny" personalities on the subject distance learning but may be prompted by asking for "distance learning" AND controversy to reveal "well-balanced" resources as well as the "darker" personality of an attacker's phrase digital diploma mills.

Read about the experiment...

11:32 am pdt
2003.06.01 | 2003.05.01

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