#vvoj2010 Another #Facebook #search tool is Booshaka: http://bit.ly/aKPlPs
– Paul Bradshaw (paulbradshaw) http://twitter.com/paulbradshaw/status/5582071804207104

Neat intro into how Google ranks pages. to be parsed for workshops, etc.

"To a first approximation, the entire web is spam when it comes to appliance reviews"

Best read with a "hmm, yeah, maybe" attitude but this hits on something our current social networks are missing out on - finding the middle ground between your "friends" and everybody. Twitter kinda had this with their option to see replies people you follow made to people you don't follow until it was scrapped for performance reasons but that was only a hint, while Facebook sort of does it for discovering new people but, afaik, doesn't play in the search arena. I want to see friend-of-a-friend search. Just as my local community is made up of people I don't know but who are probably connected to me via someone I do know, so my online community works the same way. Being able to query the data in that network would be invaluable.

Interesting, not just for the tips but as an illustration that there's more than one way to access data in a service. I'm reminded of how I used to search for bands on MySpace using Google partly because MySpace's search was so torturous but also because the way Google ranks pages usually bubbled the bands above the non-band pages.

Terence Eden is randomly searched at Waterloo Station and records the whole thing on his phone. Fascinating and a little chilling, but I do feel a little sorry for the police as he's a sarky so and so. The searchee blogs about the experience <a href="http://www.digitalmasons.co.uk/shkspr.mobi/blog/2008/08/am-i-dick.html">here</a>. The officers have yet to blog.

this and that but not the other from him on this date near there and so on. Also, search by mood, which is pretty insane.

A rather snazzy browser plugin that lets you fly through search results for photos and videos. Also has a version for websites which I intend to have a play with. via Tom Horton.

Bad bad news. One of the key reasons not to have a stupid Flash website was Google indexing. That's now out of the window. Goodbye cross platform open standards, hello proprietary code that only works efficiently on Windows. Stupid Google.

A Twitter directory with a horrible logo but could be useful. Folk have mentioned finding interesting people to follow. I have enough followers but maybe for events on specific themes?

An intro to search operators and the like