#search (62 links)
There’s a theory called Information Foraging, which suggests that people follow clues rather than systematically exploring hierarchies.
Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card describe people as information foragers. This is such a rad term for people looking for stuff on the web. Like a badger foraging for small invertebrates, we humans look for signs that useful information might be nearby and constantly decide whether to continue the search.
Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional 'Ctrl+F' searches.
- biomejs/gritql github.com
GritQL is a query language for searching, linting, and modifying code.
- The rise and fall of robots.txt theverge.com
- Have I Been Trained? haveibeentrained.com
Search for your work in popular AI training datasets
- Marginalia Search search.marginalia.nu
an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.
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- Sourcegraph sourcegraph.com
Code search for the modern programmer. Find the code you need quickly, see anywhere in the open-source world that a function or library is used, and discover other like-minded programmers.
- Google Recipe Search google.com
Answer: no. Clever hack with security implications. "In effect, this is taking the old phishing trick of homoglyph attacks—an attack consisting of using confusing look-a-like URLs like paypa1.com with the numeral one replacing the letter ell—and adding a dash of cross-site scripting but where you become the agent of infection: the supposed “censorship” may be shocking enough to cause you to forward the link."
Via alastc.
- Twist - see trends in twitter twist.flaptor.com
A simple way to discover events people are chattering about on Twitter.
- spy :: visualizes the conversations on Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Blogs and more. spy.appspot.com · Archived on
spy can listen in on the social media conversations you're interested in.
- qsb-mac - Google Code code.google.com
Google Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web.
- Using social media for SEO | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing ducttapemarketing.com
The shift is from one of web page optimization and link hounding to content and engagement optimization. In short, search engine optimization and social media are now undeniably intertwined.
Via stevenparker.
- Del.icio.us Finally Gets Some Respect from Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is.
[Matt Cutts] generally uses descriptive titles for blog posts but his URLs are short, neatly written and use only relevant keywords.
- Baynote: The Collective Intelligence Platform baynote.com
On-demand recommendations and social search for websites.
"In the coming weeks, we'll be releasing more detailed specifications that will describe our support of semantic web standards. Initially, we plan to support a number of microformats, including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN." Rock on.
- AppleInsider | Google iPhone usage shocks search giant appleinsider.com
Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.
- Why Social Ads Don’t Work - Bokardo bokardo.com
"Social ads don’t work as well because people are being social, not searching for something." Context matters.
Ever needed to find out who took a Flickr photo that you have saved? Type it in here and we'll find out who took it...
- Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan tweetscan.com
A real-time search engine for Twitter posts. Beyond that, TweetScan can do your searches automatically and email them to you
- Advancing Advanced Search - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Advanced search functionality has not significantly developed in years. Poor matches and overwhelming search results remain a problem for users. Perhaps the standard search pattern deserves a new look.
- IP Addresses of Search Engine Spiders iplists.com
"Are you interested in tracking the IP addresses of search engine spiders? You can see my latest lists of search engine IP addresses and User-Agents here." Handy.
"...searches on the sites, indicated in your del.icio.us bookmarks. With its help you can find the necessary page according to any phrase or word, which it contains. And [...] deliGoo can create on your demand custom search engines on any del.icio.us tag.
- Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility googleblog.blogspot.com
- Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It? | Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Over the last weeks we’ve done an extensive research and selected dozens of facts and suggestions about PageRank, which seem to be true in practice.
Good intro to SEO for client-types.
- You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well - WSJ.com online.wsj.com
"In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines or social networking sites' mem
- Unprecedented: Preparing PDF Documents for search precedent.typepad.com
Treating your PDF documents in this way will make it easy for people to find the most relevant documents on your site from both your internal search engine and external search engines
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: What's new with Sitemaps.org? googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Every website can have a robots.txt file in a standard location, so we decided to let you tell us about your Sitemap in the robots.txt file. All you have to do is add a line.
Doesn't seem to be giving particularly useful results right now. Oh, and it emails the person you're looking for as well, without warning you.
While Ask & Google use the title and meta description directly from Netflix, Yahoo! and MSN are pulling data from the Yahoo! directory and DMOZ (respectively).
- The 55 Piece Mobile Search Tool Kit readwriteweb.com
55 piece tool kit for mobile search
- Ziki.com : Be visible ziki.com
The same emotional forces that prompt us to buy can also cause us to link, bookmark, and Digg. The context is different, as are the nuances, but it’s still a matter of providing compelling benefits in the form of content.
- Intelligent Experience Design » Articles » Marissa Mayer of Google: Speed Good, AJAX Not So Good paradymesolutions.com
"The study found that users preferred speedy page loads to a greater number of results per page and to ‘highly interactive ajax features’. Although users reported that they preferred more results per page, their expressed desires diverged from their a
Designed to satisfy the curiosity of webmasters, surfers and web marketing professionals seeking a better metric to quickly assess a site/page's relative importance and visibility.
A large list of the factors that can influence a web document's rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase