Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
A few weeks ago I noticed during the BrightNight event that my tweets did not appear in the backchannel. After extensively searching the Twitter Support pages on ‘Tweets Not In Search/Hashtags not working‘ I found out that for some reason Twitter had blocked/removed my tweets from search. After some shout outs on Twitter, it appeared… Read more Thank you Twitter, for showing my tweets in search again
Last month Google announced the launch of their Real Time Search engine. By including real time search results Google has now officially embraced the updatesphere as a subsphere of “The Web,” as may be seen in the following figures. In my real time web results Google is indexing updates performed within the three popular micro-blogging… Read more Google officially welcomes the updatesphere
This post is inspired by Alex Halavais’ post Halavais is…. where Havalais listed “some of Google’s opinion of me via a search for “halavais is,†“halavais was,†and “halavais will be.†” It reminded me of the iTea project made at the RFID Hacker’s Camp 2007: iTea is an interactive installation in the form of… Read more Anne Helmond is…
For your info: What: Second Open-Search Workshop When: Saturday April 28, 2007, 13.00h CET, 11.00h GMT, 06.00h EST, 4.00h EET, 01.00h HST, 04.00h MSTDuration: official program will be 4 hours Where (physical): CREA, room 204, Turfdraagsterpad 17, 1012 XT Amsterdam (route: http://www.crea.uva.nl/contact/zoomplattegrond.html) Where (virtual): http://www.open-search.net/Opensearch/SecondWorkshop Cost: free attendance, free drinks More info: http://www.open-search.net/Opensearch/SecondWorkshop If you… Read more Second Open-Search Workshop
Google is still maintaining it’s strong number one position in the search engine landscape. Microsoft is trying to get back by launching it’s new Live Search service, but are they strong enough to overthrow the almighty Google? This is one of the questions I asked myself for my BA thesis. And of course there are… Read more Open-search kick-off workshop
Samenvatting Google is op dit moment de onbetwiste marktleider in zoekmachineland en deze positie lijkt onaantastbaar. De vraag is echter of dit wel zo is. Microsoft introduceerde onlangs zijn vernieuwde zoekmachine Live Search waarmee de aanval op de dominante positie van Google wordt ingezet. Deze strijd doet denken aan de browseroorlog uit de jaren negentig… Read more Google VS Microsoft. De strijd om de standaard in zoekmachineland