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Glean

I have written on several occasions about the problem of finding what you look for rather than what you should see. This is my way of describing what Eli Pariser calls the Filter Bubble (also the name of his book).  For educators, thorough online exploration is part what might be called digital literacy. Public Learning [...]

Posted 17 September 2011 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Need a way to test

I have been listening to Eli Pariser’s “The Filter Bubble”. I became interested in the book after listening to Pariser’s TED talk. I have become fascinated with the claims made in the talk and book. Here is my take on a core claim of both. The claim might be described as a complaint about either [...]

Posted 07 June 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Finding What We Want to Find

This TED Talk by Eli Pariser questions the present methods by which Google returns hits from search queries. I have read several books over the years describing the development of Google and thought I understood the process. The early technique using page rank returned hits that were referenced by influential others (so defined by being [...]

Posted 08 May 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Google a Day

Google has a new offering – Google a Day. Google asks a question and you attempt to find the answer. Google even includes a feature that allows you to search the Internet as it existed before they answered the question (folks are fond of demonstrating they have found the answer). Perhaps this is an interesting [...]

Posted 28 April 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

All of Me

I is a gorgeous holiday weekend and I am trying to work. Perhaps there will be time for fun later. I happen to be working on a chapter focused on the topic of cyberbullying. Anyway, one of the issues I came across in my reading concerned the origins of the term – who used it [...]

Posted 23 May 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Wolfram|Alpha Launch

I followed the video feed of the Wolfram|Alpha launch tonight. Offering this as a live feed was innovative and not without several hitches. After a couple of hours, the site went live. I was able to conduct a couple of searches. I was unable to find out anything about me. I was able to obtain [...]

Posted 16 May 2009 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Leapfish – Another attempt to improve search

A post by David Warlich encouraged my exploration of Leapfish – another attempt to improve the search experience. As I understand the intent of Leapfish from the “About us” page and the Warlich post, it appears that Leapfish is an attempt to do a better job of integrating the multiple dimensions (webs, blogs, video, images, [...]

Posted 21 January 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: