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Business Insider -- DOWN ON THE (CONTENT) FARM: Here's Why I Would Never Invest In Demand Media
'Demand contracts with thousands of freelancers to produce hundreds of thousands of pieces of low-quality content, the topics for which are chosen according to their search value, most of which are driven by Google. Because Google’s algorithm weights prolific and constant content over quality content, Google’s algorithm places Demand content high on their search engine result pages. Google search results drive enormous amounts of traffic to Demand’s sites, which Google is then happy to monetize for a hefty split of ad revenue. So, Demand creates the content cheaply; Google then sends free traffic to those pages; and then Google sells ads to those same users. Arbitrage defined. The worse the content the cheaper it is for Demand to produce and the more likely a visitor to that content is to click on a Google AdSense link as that is often the most compelling thing on the page. Demand’s content threatens the quality of the user experience on Google.'
advertising  content  spam  seo  search  storygraph  businessmodels  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RT: Keiser Report: 'Crash JP Morgan' Special (ft. Alex Jones)
'A special 'Crash JP Morgan' edition of the Keiser Report. This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the call from Eric Cantona to withdraw money from the banks and at the viral 'Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver' campaign by Max Keiser. In the second half of the show Max talks to Alex Jones about Google bombs, naked body scanners and 'Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver'.'
forcedmemes  googlebomb  search  propagation  news  internet  activism  herd  economics  silver  manipulation  mercantilism  backlash  shortsqueeze  JPMorgan  america  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Human-flesh Search Engines in China
'Searches have been directed against all kinds of people, including cheating spouses, corrupt government officials, amateur pornography makers, Chinese citizens who are perceived as unpatriotic, journalists who urge a moderate stance on Tibet and rich people who try to game the Chinese system. Human-flesh searches highlight what people are willing to fight for: the political issues, polarizing events and contested moral standards that are the fault lines of contemporary China.' -- InternetToughGuy: “Kill him." -- 'The human-flesh search engine can also serve as a safety valve in a society with ever mounting pressures on the government. “You can’t stop the anger, can’t make everyone shut up, can’t stop the Internet, so you try and channel it as best you can. You try and manage it, kind of like a waterworks hydroelectric project,” MacKinnon explained. “It’s a great way to divert the qi, the anger, to places where it’s the least damaging to the central government’s legitimacy.”'
internet  web  socialmedia  crowdsourcing  search  gossip  snitching  stalking  revenge  rage  vigilantism  dumbmobs  meatspace  e-penis  banhammer  violence  china  herd  psychology  retribalization 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Daniel Haun
'REPETITION, NOT TRUTH -- People, including you, believe the examples they can think of right away to be most representative and therefore indicative of the truth. This is called the "availability heuristic". Repetition creates the illusion of truth. Let's reconsider the Internet. [A searched] page's relevance is determined by how many other relevant pages link to it. Repetition, not truth. Your search engine will then present a set of ranked pages to you, determining availability. Repetition determines availability, and both together the illusion of truth. Hence, the Internet does just what you would do. It isn't changing the structure of your thinking, because it resembles it. It isn't changing the structure of your thinking, because it resembles it. It isn't changing the structure of your thinking, because it resembles it.'
internet  information  search  bias  availabilitybias  falsepositive  feedback  replication  #specialization  echochamber  collectiveunintelligence 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Google Goggles
'Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results.Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview.' -- Facial recognition?
google  mobile  search  augmentedreality  foraging  shopping  location  interaction  design  surveillance  panopticon 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Acquisio -- Forward and Backward; Musings on Librarianship and the Future of Search
'A good model of the future needs to incorporate lots of old baggage. ... civilization is fragile. The best chance of information survival is not publicity, authority, power, electronic storage or even paper recordings. Our oldest surviving stories were written on clay tablets and buried it in the desert, dependant as much on fluke as human planning for their survival. -- Hopefully we’ll always exist in a place somewhere between information dystopia and utopia, a place that allows enough happy accidents, that there will always be a need for search. The buried doubloons. The lost and refound manuscript. The private collection. Though I’ve defined the future librarian mainly as an organizer, the passion is equally the hunt. And even more than the hunt is the importance of what we serendipitously find along the way. The Internet is great for this. But so is fossil hunting. Forward and backward. We need both.'
librarianship  archives  information  search  kipple  foraging  serendipity 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Forbes.com -- The Man Who's Beating Google
'"China's going to be the largest Internet market in the world. If Google isn't the leader there, will it really be the leading search company in the world?" -- Baidu's success has been inflated by questionable practices.' -- Paid censorship, search tampering, state-sponsored evil, etc
search  baidu  censorship  google  DONTBEEVIL 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
Slate Magazine -- Seeking: The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting.
'It is an emotional state Panksepp tried many names for: curiosity, interest, foraging, anticipation, craving, expectancy. He finally settled on seeking. Panksepp has spent decades mapping the emotional systems of the brain he believes are shared by all mammals, and he says, "Seeking is the granddaddy of the systems." It is the mammalian motivational engine that each day gets us out of the bed, or den, or hole to venture forth into the world. -- For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our physical needs. Panksepp says that humans can get just as excited about abstract rewards as tangible ones. He says that when we get thrilled about the world of ideas, about making intellectual connections, about divining meaning, it is the seeking circuits that are firing.' -- "The dopamine system does not have satiety built into it. As long as you sit there, the consumption renews the appetite."'
psychology  behaviours  search  seeking  foraging  huntergatherer  collecting  rewards  intermittentvariablerewards  dopamine  gluttony  addiction 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
POLITICO.com -- Larry Summers cites Google search as progress
'The number of people searching for the term “economic depression” on Google is down to normal levels, Summers said. Searches for the term were up four-fold when the recession deepened in the earlier part of the year, and the recent shift goes to show consumer confidence is higher, Summers told the Peterson Institute for International Economics.' -- My logic is irrefutable.
economics  search  sentiment 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
TechCrunch -- Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”
'Already, Twitter made up “90% of the content” on Google Blog Search. As the minutes put it: “We are this product.” There was also talk of including microblog results on the main search page, which would be “the biggest change to google search in years.”'
twitter  google  businessmodels  strategy  realtime  sentiment  search  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
CollegeHumor -- Googling with Bing
'The easiest way to Google since Yahoo!' - HAHA
bing  google  search 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Times Online -- Human flesh search engines: Chinese vigilantes that hunt victims on the web
'A new phenomenon is sweeping China after the quake: digital witch hunts of those who dare to be outspoken or criticise. -- According to Ms Eberlein, the term “human flesh search engine”, a literal translation of the Chinese, was first coined in 2001 when an entertainment website asked users to track down film and music trivia. With 210 million Chinese wired up to the internet, it was a powerful concept. It quickly caught on and came to be used as a tool to punish the perpetrators of extra-marital affairs, domestic violence and morality crimes. “Righteousness is one of the five virtues in the Confucian tradition,” Ms Eberlein said. “With the convenience of the internet, and in the case of non-responsive law, the righteous people took matters into their own hands.”' -- McLuhan explains the cause of such violence as a lack of identity in a life lived at the speed of light: http://adamcrowe.posterous.com/kill
internet  web  socialmedia  crowdsourcing  search  gossip  snitching  stalking  revenge  rage  vigilantism  dumbmobs  meatspace  violence  china  herd  psychology  retribalization 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
TechCrunch -- The Real Time Search Dilemma: Consciousness Versus Memory
'There is something about human nature which makes us want to prioritize information by how recent it is, and that is the fundamental appeal of real time search. “Real time taps into consciousness,” says Edo Segal, “search taps into memory. That is why it so potent. You experience the world in real time.” This raises an interesting dilemma. If real time data streams are akin to the living consciousness of the Web, how do you search them? How do you search consciousness? It is not the same as searching memory, which is what Google does when it looks at its indexed archive of the Web and how those pieces of information build up authority over time. The real time search dilemma centers precisely around how to rank results, and how to resolve the tension between recency and relevancy.' -- Comment: Edo: "The ultimate purpose of RTS is to divine insight from the TOTALITY of the human conversation in ways we have only begun to realize in REAL-TIME."
realtime  search  consciousness  memory  #ubiquity 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Aardvark
'A real conversation with a friend (or friend-of-friend) can be much more helpful than searching the web — all the knowledge and experience in people’s heads can’t be put on a web page! With Aardvark, there’s nothing to download or install: just send Aardvark a message through IM, like you do when talking to a friend. Aardvark figures out who might be able to answer, and asks on your behalf — Aardvark is the hub. It’s all about people helping each other out!'
search  tools  tacitknowledge  socialmedia 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
'Selling ads doesn't generate only profits; it also generates torrents of data about users' tastes and habits, data that Google then sifts and processes in order to predict future consumer behavior, find ways to improve its products, and sell more ads. This is the heart and soul of Googlenomics. It's a system of constant self-analysis: a data-fueled feedback loop that defines not only Google's future but the future of anyone who does business online. -- Wu calls Google "the barometer of the world." Indeed, studying the clicks is like looking through a window with a panoramic view of everything. You can see the change of seasons—clicks gravitating toward skiing and heavy clothes in winter, bikinis and sunscreen in summer—and you can track who's up and down in pop culture. Most of us remember news events from television or newspapers; Googlers recall them as spikes in their graphs. ...every bit of data, no matter how seemingly trivial, has potential value.'
*  google  search  adwords  auction  markets  businessmodels  mutualism  economics  econometrics  statistics  modelling  data  datamining  realitymining  surveillance  panopticon  feedback  #complexity  #specialization  simulacra  mirrorworlds 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
ReadWriteWeb -- Twitter Crowns Bit.ly As The King of Short Links; Here's What It Means
"Once Bit.ly has been put to enough use, and today's news will likely be a big part of that happening, you'll be able to ask it questions like: within the last hour, what are the five hottest web pages about President Obama's budget? What social networks are sharing links to my web page the most today? What are ornithologists on Twitter most interested in this week? The columns and rows here are semantic key terms on pages shared, method of sharing used (Facebook, Twitter, email, etc.), number of click-throughs, time and person who created the original shortcut. There's a whole lot you can do when you have that kind of information about a link.'
twitter  search  socialgraph 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Wolfram|Alpha
'Our overarching goal, the “higher purpose” of this project, is to make all computable, factual knowledge available to everyone. What Wolfram|Alpha does is compute on top of those facts—answering questions, solving equations, providing insights, projecting future behaviors.' -- This is a IP harvester's wet dream! The search query data is literally going to be priceless. Imagine the feedback loops. Each computational search creates yet more facts, more context, more knowledge to build upon. All they have to do is charge for excessive API calls and...
mathematics  algorithms  prediction  computation  context  search  commandline  mathematica  wolframalpha  knowledge  negentropy  reflexivity  #complexity  #diversity 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
New Scientist -- Innovation: How your search queries can predict the future
'Google researchers Hyunyoung Choi and Hal Varian combined data from Google Trends on the popularity of different search terms with models used by economists to predict trends in areas such as travel and home sales. The result? Better forecasts in almost every case. It works because searches reveal something about people's intentions. For example, Varian suggests a surge in people using the term "unemployment insurance" may help predict looming economic problems. Google has demonstrated before that search data can predict flu outbreaks, and last week World Bank economist Erik Feyen said he could cut errors in a model that forecasts lending to the private sector by 15% using Google search data. But real time results could have even more predictive power: knowing what people are actually doing, not just thinking, at a particular instant gives a strong hint of the future consequences.' -- Tweet-assisted steering.
google  twitter  realtime  search  intention  trends  forecasting  prediction  markets  collectiventelligence  feedback  reflexivity  negentropy  #complexity  #specialization  collectiveintelligence 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Floxee - Find your flock and follow!
"Build your own searchable list of Twitter accounts for your company, organization, school, or bird watching club!" -- Code is on github
twitter  aggregation  directory  search  tools 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Twitter Search -- bit.ly OR ow.ly OR tinyurl OR is.gd OR is tr.im filter:links
Search query to grab every bit.ly, ow.ly, is.gd, tr.im, tinyurl link tweet since January 2008. Grab the RSS and you'll never miss a twittered-linked thing. (Well, you will. The twitlink-stream is too fast.)
twitter  search  links  hoarding  obsession 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
TwiTip -- Welcome to the Hive Mind; Learn How to Search Twitter
"Hashtags, Minus sign, Near, Since, Until. Example: #inauguration near:collegestation since:2009-01-20 until:2009-01-20"
twitter  realtime  search  howto 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
MT Hacks -- Realtime Twitter Search Results on Google
"I created a Greasemonkey user script... It displays the most recent 5 tweets for the query that you are search for, giving both real-time Twitter search results and Google results on the same page..."
twitter  google  realtime  search  hacks  greasemonkey 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
ThinkSketch -- From microblog to Network Protocol: How Twitter will redefine the Internet
"What I see, is that twitter could become a trellis for the web - a opt-in backbone that holds an open invitation for the entire internet and grows without bounds, but (unlike the web at large) wonderfully imposes those liberating constraints of time-location and brevity. It is this constraining format - the timestamp, tag, and shortform, that enables unprecedented collaboration... This opens up a whole new way of creating databases... Increasingly people are going to use Twitter in new unintended ways simply for the data-structure of it- because this structure enables them to create these kind of powerful new social databases that we can only begin to imagine." -- Rhizome
twitter  socialgraph  serviceecologies  internet  rhizome  networks  protocols  realtime  search  database  datamining  #socialization  #complexity  #ubiquity 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
TED.com -- Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users
"In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves."
twitter  socialdesign  UX  innovation  realtime  search  news  extensionsofman  proprioception  coordination  navigation  sharing  tools  #diversity 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Techcrunch -- Mining The Thought Stream
"What makes Google and other search engines so valuable is that they capture people’s intent—what they are looking for, what they desire, what they want to learn about. But they don’t do a great job at capturing what people are doing or what they are thinking about. For thoughts and events that are happening right now, searching Twitter increasingly brings up better results than searching Google."
twitter  polling  opinion  sentiment  aggregation  realtime  search  time  #socialization  conformity  groupthink  extensionsofman  proprioception  centralnervoussystem  metabolism 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Google Custom Search Engine
"Have a website or collection of sites you'd like to search over? With Custom Search Engine, you can harness the power of Google to create a search engine tailored to your needs."
google  search  tools 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Ashley Swartz on Greater Media
"Ashley Swartz, CEO of North America Ag8, explains why there is more to search than we think."
AshleySwartz  search 
december 2008 by adamcrowe
118.com -- See Questions & Answers as They Come in
Leaky.
search  attention  surveillance  voyeurism  leaky 
november 2008 by adamcrowe
Official Google Blog -- SearchWiki: make search your own
"Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results?" -- No! I want objective search results, not to be trapped in my own ignorance bubble. This is user-centered design gone mad.
search  searchwiki  wiki  usercentred  design  feedback  ignorance  conformity  groupthink  censorship  collectiveunintelligence 
november 2008 by adamcrowe
Let me google that for you
"This is for all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves." -- Google search url shortener.
google  search  url  tools  productnarratives 
november 2008 by adamcrowe
Scroogle
"Fun Fact: You can delete most spam and blogs by adding -com to your search terms."
search  tools  anonymity 
october 2008 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Teyana Taylor "Google Me!!!"
"From the planet of harlem! Teyana Taylor 1st Single 'Google Me!!!' Subcribe!!!!" -- !!!
fame  google  search  vernacular  memes  music 
september 2008 by adamcrowe
Twellow
"Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. We then analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com. By adding these people to specific categories we help you narrow your searching into specific niches where you can find who you are looking for." -- Leaky.
twitter  search  realitymining  socialmedia  tools  storygraph  archetypes  work 
august 2008 by adamcrowe
The Observer -- Into the future: Pros and cons of a Google world
Adam Curtis: "Machines like Google know something about us as human beings that we really don't want to know - that we are not individuals: 'If you like this then you will like that...'. So Google is a paradox. It gives us the feeling we are wild and free individuals, powerfully reinforcing an idea of us as heroic figures in the consumer age. Yet at the same time it is powerfully proving the opposite - that we are completely predictable."
AdamCurtis  google  search  realism  realityprogramming  feedback  theadvertisedlife 
august 2008 by adamcrowe
Google (Beta version)
As archived in 1999
google  history  search 
august 2008 by adamcrowe
Kevin Kelly -- Will We Let Google Make Us Smarter?
Comment: Nick Carr: "... the efficiency of data collection seems central to Google’s (and seemingly Kevin Kelly’s) idea of intelligence; to me it’s one element in intelligence but by no means the most important... Google has no impact on IQ scores."
google  search  information  intelligence  recall  #storage  #bandwidth  #processing  learning  ADHD  attentiondeficithyperactivedisorder  attention  continuouspartialattention 
july 2008 by adamcrowe
Kevin Kelly -- Will We Let Google Make Us Smarter?
Comment: Tom Buckner: "... three ways of knowing a thing: To know it yourself, to know others who know it, or to know how to find those who know it? Google’s work is directly related to how good you are at asking the right question."
google  search  information  mentalmodels  mapping  navigation  triangulation  context  neuroplasticity  intelligence  #bandwidth  #processing  #storage 
july 2008 by adamcrowe
TechCrunch -- Is This The Future Of Search?
Google search pimped for attention profits. 'Don't be evil 'suddenly turns into 'Don't be stupid'.
google  search  digg  collectiveintelligence  collectiveunintelligence 
july 2008 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Google and Creator of ‘Family Guy’ Strike a Deal
"Every time someone clicks on one of the syndicated videos, the associated advertiser pays a fee." -- Great play for context/targeted product-placement (!ads) within animation. Narrative <--> Generative via attention profiling. Your story will be graphed.
google  businessmodels  distribution  entertainment  advertising  marketing  productplacement  metabrands  virtualgoods  search  intention  attention  storygraph  theadvertisedlife  socialobjects  objects 
july 2008 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Microsoft's Grand Plan: Pay People to Use its Search Engine
"Microsoft unveiled its big plan for online search, and it reeks of desperation. The company is rolling out a cashback search service, which lets users get rebates for purchases they make through Live.com." -- How bizarre!
microsoft  microsoftlive  search  strategy  wtf?  WTF 
may 2008 by adamcrowe
Umair Haque -- The Microsoft vs Google Endgame
"Google's shift to openness - can you see how it unlocks value for everyone? Google is in a class of its own - across the economy - when it comes to next-generation strategy. Google opening up its ad networks is strategic greatness at work."
google  opensocial  friendconnect  socialgraph  platform  dataportability  facebook  yahoo  microsoft  strategy  businessmodels  economics  search  advertising  serviceecologies 
may 2008 by adamcrowe
Bokardo - Why Social Ads Don’t Work
"Social ads don’t work as well because people are being social, not searching for something... [social ads] have to be interesting enough to get you away from socializing..."
search  advertising  socialmedia  context  situation 
february 2008 by adamcrowe
RussellBeattie.com - The Google Myth Rolls to Mobile
"The greatest hoax ever played on the Internet is the idea that Google's growth was somehow "natural" or "viral", and that [it] propelled them to their insane 70% market share. ... Google bought as much search space as they could from OEMs, portals, etc."
google  search  business  mobile  iphone  hype  rant 
february 2008 by adamcrowe
Guardian - Read me first: You say you've never considered the politics of search engines?
"Wikia's search project is trying to draw on the fear and doubt stemming from the dominance of Google...it's safe to say that framing search as a public good has been good for Wikia's bottom line"- the commodification of discontent and corporate co-option
wikia  search  spin  opensource  open  transparency  advertising  hackersvsvectoralists  peerproduction  immateriallabour  ethics  mahalo  google  SethFinkelstein 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Guardian - Jeff Jarvis: The social whirl driving the development of search
Mahalo pays and Wikia doesn't. Calacanis sniped at Wales for this: "I'm a writer by trade and I take offence when people try to devalue writing." Wales responded: "Nobody works for free. What people do for free is have fun. Content and work can be social.
JasonCalacanis  mahalo  wikia  web  search  socialsearch  algorithms  collectiveintelligence  crowdsourcing  peerproduction  monetization  ethics  free 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
The Long Tail - The fat tail will be human, the medium tail social, the long tail algorithmic
Calacanis: "the fat tail will be human, the medium tail social, the long tail algorithmic... the advertising interest is in the fat tail." - Comment: "I prefer the terms "Short Head", "Fat Middle" and "Long Tail"...the Short Head [is] actually Corporate"'
JasonCalacanis  longtail  search  socialsearch  socialgraph  markets  advertising  economics  web  mahalo  wikia  google 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
OUseful Info - Google Page 2 Search
"The hackery occurs with &start=10, which I added to the end of the query that was bookmarked in the bookmark properties dialogue... this argument means "Start displaying results at result index number 10"; that is, start with page 2." -- Righteous!
google  search  seo  damage  hacks  firefox  smartkeywords 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
O'Reily Radar - Human vs. Machine: The Great Challenge of Our Time
"Figuring out the right balance of man and machine is one of the great challenges of our time." -- Cory Doctorow: "... ranking algorithms are editorial: they embody the biases, hopes, beliefs and hypotheses of the programmers who write and design them."
*  web  search  algorithms  machinelearning  socialsearch  editorial  bias  semanticweb  google  mahalo  wikia  opensource  peerproduction  collectiveintelligence  spam  seo  damage  healing  equalibrium  adwords  markets  derivatives  futures  hedging  networks  networkeffects  feedback 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
The Jason Calacanis Weblog - Web 3.0, the "official" definition.
'Web 3.0 throttles the "wisdom of the crowds" from turning into the "madness of the mobs" we've seen all to often, by balancing it with a respect of experts. Web 3.0 leaves behind the cowardly anonymous contributors and the selfish blackhat SEOs...'
JasonCalacanis  semanticweb  web  socialsearch  search  trust 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
del.icio.us - jasonmcalacanis "mahalo"
Jason's bookmarks tagged "mahalo".
JasonCalacanis  mahalo  socialsearch  search 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Scobleizer - Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years
Videos: "I explain how SEO-resistant technologies like Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are about to upend the search industry." (Lots of comments.)
mahalo  socialgraph  semanticgraph  socialsearch  search  seo  JasonCalacanis 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Read/WriteTalk - Jason Calacanis — CEO of Mahalo
MP3 Interview and transcript posted Friday, August 24th, 2007
JasonCalacanis  mahalo  mp3  interviews  search  socialsearch 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
ValleyWag - Jason Calacanis searches for hits
'Less than two months after he launched his search engine [Mahalo], Calacanis has shifted strategies, emphasizing how-to content on the so-called "human powered search engine."' (Apparently, this 'shift' was an intentional diversion.)
JasonCalacanis  mahalo  search  socialsearch  howto  content 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
ValleyWag - Jason Calacanis has no friends at Google
'"Mahalo's website cheerily informs users that the ads that appear are placed by "Our Friends at Google." Oh, really? "Publishers are not allowed to draw undue attention to ads on their site," says [Google's] Brandon McCormick'
JasonCalacanis  mahalo  google  search  adsense  socialsearch 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Wired - EU Official: IP Is Personal
"IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday" Ouch!
internet  identity  ip  anonymity  privacy  data  google  search  cookies  adwords  advertising  measurement 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
John Battelle's Searchblog - The Database of Intentions
"The aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result a place holder for the intentions of humankind - a massive database of desires, needs, wants, and likes..."
search  anthropology  data  database  intentions  history  ideas  web 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
The Guardian - From Amis to Zeppelin, what your web searches reveal
"... in 2005 an obscure internet forum about video technology became deluged with messages after it became the top result for Google searches on the phrase "I am lonely", which thousands of people, it turned out, were typing every day." Video? Figures.
*  themediumisthemessage  extensionsofman  eye  skin  centralnervoussystem  immunesystem  thyroid  identity  intention  google  web  search  technographics  trends  polling  surveys  history  realism  reality  behaviours  networkeffects  feedback  hype  panic  metabolism  media  eyes 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Semapedia
"Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space."
semacode  wikipedia  wiki  geo  geotagging  tagging  tags  everyware  search  storytelling  productnarratives  digital  commons  internet  mapping  navigation  information  mirrorworlds 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Codeulate - F*cking programming
Haha! Google Code search reveals swearing in commented code. (We've all done it) /* 2,191 lines of complete and utter shit coming up… */
code  comments  google  search  funny 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Jung von Matt - SIXT 'ASCII GTI'
Ascii-art Google AdWords ads. Honest!
ascii  google  adwords  search  advertising  retro  typography  via:chucktantramar  design 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
AOL search data mirrors
"This collection consists of ~20M web queries collected from ~650k users over three months.The data is sorted by anonymous user ID and sequentially arranged. The goal of this collection is to provide real query log data that is based on real users." Leaky
aol  search  data  privacy  identity  reality  realism  news  journalism  self  voyeurism 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Virtual Worlds News - Yahoo Not Interested in Virtual Worlds
Good. Just keep our flickrs and del.icio.us tickety-boo and we'll donate you a couple of bucks now and again. Don't worry. You'll be fine. Honest.
yahoo  virtualworlds  strategy  content  search  mapping  navigation  storytelling  objects  narrativeobjects 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Radar - Web 2.0 and Advertising: Do We See Eye to Eye?
"The basic fact is that it is hard to describe yourself and your needs and desires. (Google ads make sense is that they are linked to an activity -- my search terms -- not my interests. It reflects what I'm interested in right now.)" Intent is king?
advertising  socialmedia  search  businessmodels  intention  content  brandedcontent  feedback 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Rough Type - Understanding Google
"It’s this natural drive to reduce the cost of complements that, more than anything else, explains Google’s strategy. Google wants information to be free - and that is why Google strikes fear into so many different kinds of companies." And people.
google  businessmodels  information  data  search  economics  freedom 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Jason Calacanis - Why Facebook isn't Google, in 100 words
Video: 6:55: "Social networking is the worst place to advertise. The content there from your friends and your family is more compelling than any advertisement. Google has the greatest advertising in media history - search advertising." -- Intent is king?
*  google  facebook  socialads  search  advertising  socialgraph  news  networkeffects  seeding  sneezers  mavens  influence  celebrity  fame  brandmodels  brandedenvironments  storytelling  productnarratives  attention  intention  businessmodels  context  socialnetworking  time  space  place  monetization  theadvertisedlife  identity  feedback  uncanny  worldvsplatform  propagation 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
matthewbuckland.com - Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales to create Facebook competitor?
"Could it be some kind of search/social networking hybrid?"
wiki  JimmyWales  facebook  google  search  socialnetworking  opensource 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Google - The Anatomy of a Search Engine
"Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results."
*  advertising  google  history  businessmodels  search  datamining  ethics  DONTBEEVIL 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Economist - Social graph-iti
Good: "[Google] aggregates advertisers and sends them to potential customers who have expressed specific intentions by typing search queries... On Google, advertisements are valued; on Facebook they are an annoyance that users ignore."
economics  advertising  google  facebook  beacon  socialads  socialnetworking  attention  search  socialgraph 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Facebook - Friend Sets
Pretty damn clever and pretty too.
facebook  visualization  applications  friendship  diagrams  search 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
Google Search - "adam crowe" site:facebook.com
Just checking.
facebook  ac  google  search  privacy  identity 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
SexySEO
Too skinny.
seo  web  search  blogging 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
Wired - Sept. 7, 1998: If the Check Says 'Google Inc.,' We're 'Google Inc.'
1998: Handed a check for $100,000 made out to "Google Inc.," Sergey Brin and Larry Page figure they better incorporate their fledgling search engine. So they do.
google  history  wen  search  internet 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
Google Facebook App
OMFG! Share search queries with your friends??? My fingers have just stopped working.
facebook  google  search  widgets  applications  selfservers  cyberbrain  extensionsofman  brain  socialgraph  wtf?  tools  WTF 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
Ad Week - Yahoo Automates Banner Creative
Yahoo is introducing SmartAds that automates the creation of banner ads... potentially thousands of permutations tailored to user behavior. "Relevance to the consumer is all that matters at the end of the day, whether it's a piece of content or an ad"
advertising  psychographics  behaviours  banners  search 
august 2007 by adamcrowe
Wired - Astonishing! Spock, a New People-Search Engine, Thinks You're a Pedophile
"If Spock succeeds in becoming the Google for people search, you may have no choice but to sign on. Your reputation may depend on it."
people  search  tagging  reputation  profile  identity  spock  privacy  defamation  selfservers 
august 2007 by adamcrowe
Hyperhappen - Who'd done already thunk it?
“When there is a blackout in New York, the first articles appear [on the web] in 15 minutes; we get queries in two seconds”. - Google
*  google  time  compression  news  search  query  information  ideology  history  data  cloud  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  synaptics  speed  journalism  disintermediation  web  internet  networks  virtuality  reality  simulation 
august 2007 by adamcrowe
Blackle - Energy Saving Search
"Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen."
design  prank  energy  colours  search  google  environment  webdesign 
july 2007 by adamcrowe
Forbes.com - The Saboteurs Of Search
negative SEO: "Search marketers claim they can frame certain competitors as cheaters by posting thousands of links around the Web making a competing site look like it's engaging in 'link spamming' a tactic that draws the disfavor of major search engines."
seo  tactics  war  business  search  gaming  hacks  competition  marketing  feedback 
july 2007 by adamcrowe
Unit Structures - Adsense for a Social Context
"Leveraging an adsense approach by drawing on simple, native elements for the construction of ad properties. Ads that seamlessly integrate into the profile, or even become part of the profile stand the best chance of being clicked."
advertising  socialnetworking  facebook  search  situation 
july 2007 by adamcrowe
WordPress robots.txt optimized for SEO
"Robots.txt file can make a huge impact on your WordPress blogs traffic and search engine rank. This is an SEO optimized robots.txt file."
seo  wordpress  google  search 
july 2007 by adamcrowe
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