Search engines
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I was reading Daniel Lemire’s lament about the absence of a good tool that will let you discover papers that are pertinent to your research or that cite you, nodding my head and thinking, yes, I want one of those too! What a pity my boss is retiring this summer. He’s got a large body […]
Ambient collaboration
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Daniel Lemire taught me a new term yesterday evening right before I had to leave to go pwn the Nexus with my guildies: “ambient collaboration”. “Twitter simulates the random ‘hallways’ conversations [between colleagues], I think”, tweets Daniel. Here, Daniel is describing ambient collaboration as a random, possibly short term collaboration made possible by the backchannel […]
Now that’s interesting
Monday, July 28th, 2008There have been many search engines but Google has dominated the area for several years now and I’ve been quite happy with its minimalist approach. So I was a bit skeptical when I read that there’s a new search engine available: Cuil, even if it was created by Google alumni.
Well, a quick ego search has […]
Social searching of various kinds
Monday, February 4th, 2008Apparently, Google is thinking about doing social searching, which is something like asking your friends to recommend a movie, according to Sarah Perez. For some reason, I find this idea kind of creepy. It would have to be very well implemented indeed not to become Orwellian in nature. In the meantime, if you’re searching for […]
Search needs
Friday, October 5th, 2007I’m looking for papers on Alzheimer’s Disease. Did you know there’s a lot of research that’s been done in that domain? Makes it hard to find anything specific. I would like to be able to tell the search engine that I want to limit it to research on cognitive aspects and to drop anything that […]
Just another phishing technique
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Two emails proclaim that I have joined two different web sites, giving me a user ID number, login ID and temporary password, and encouraging me to go to their web site to change my password. Interestingly, in both cases, instead of giving me a URL with words in it (as in www.sylvienoel.ca), the URL is […]
The search engine known as Spock
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Spock is a search engine for people. With tags. Anyone can add the tags. Nice. Uh, no, not really.
Of course, when you spot one of those, what do you do first? Yup, ego search! Spock returns three Sylvie Noels. Well, two Sylvie Noels and one Noel Sylvie. Who has Sylvie as a last name? Weird. […]
