Posted on October 2, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
There are specialized search engines like sig.ma using semantic technology (but working in niches), and there are the big search machines slowly starting to use such an approach. Yahoo does it for some time already and Google goes RDFa and microformats.
Google looks for markup formats (microformats and RDFa) and displays reviews and ratings and also [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
Data is the New Hot, Drop-dead Gorgeous Field (From FlowingData and New York Times)
Posted by Nathan / Aug 7, 2009 to Statistics / 1 comment
We all know this already, but it’s nice to get some backing from The New York Times every now and then. In this NYT article, that I’m sure has spread to [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis (from ReadWriteSTART)
Written by Jolie O’Dell / August 5, 2009 8:40 PM / 0 Comments
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Posted on August 4, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
Stockholm-based startup Spezify is a visual search engine that impresses with relevant results displayed in a visual but still functional way.
Founded by Felix af Ekenstam and Per Persson, digital creatives who have over 10 years of experience in the space, Spezify arrived in beta in April and launched officially about six weeks ago. Results are [...]
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Posted on August 3, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
Have a try with for example “official statistics“!
More structure in results in Yebol than Google. Only “statistics” or other combinations like global and international give interesting variations in patterns of results.
Yebol offers categorised search results for about 10 million search terms. Within half a year “every possible search term” is said to be included. See [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
In the age of microblogging search engines have to be very, very quick in indexing the continuous stream of information. The search engine Collecta indexes blogs, blog comments, microblogs like Twitter, Jaiku and also fotos in Flickr.
In order to find out more about search engines beyond Google see the article of Ryan Singel in WIRED [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
Some hours ago the much discussed new search engine Wofram Alpha (see blogstats post ) went online.
It gives results about statistics (first page only viewed below)
And it gives ample information about 2 slices of swiss cheese (plain, low fat etc.) ;)
It gives ample source information:
And it gives this, too:
Go to live video
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
Wolfram Alpha WA is a new search engine starting in May 2009 and which could be important for statistics.
Not really a search engine
But, in fact: ‘ Wolfram Alpha isn’t really a search engine, because we compute the answers, and we discover new truths. If anything, you might call it a platonic search engine, unearthing [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
Google Begins to Make Public Data Searchable
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 28, 2009 1:28 PM /
Google just announced its first foray into making public data searchable and viewable in graph form. The company is starting with population and unemployment data from around the US but promises to make far more data sets searchable [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
The prevalence of the search term seems to be visualised in relation to years occurring in the text. Design it yourself by choosing new year intervals and by putting in the name of your National Statistical Institute. Of course it is also possible to choose statistical subject matter areas, e.g “national accounts”, or any other search term [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
To write blogs or blog posts is one side of the reality. The other one is being blogged. Out there in the blogosphere, the universe of blogs and bloggers, there are people writing about your activities or about your institution.
Specialised search engines like technorati or Google Blog Search (see also: blogsearch) help to get knowledge [...]
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Posted on December 6, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
… and we still dream of some visions showed in it.
In 1987 Apple published a video presenting a visionary tool which could assist us some day in our daily work and .. in our data search: The Knowledge Navigator. Have a look at this quite amusing video.
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Posted on September 27, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
A panel with representatives from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft talking about the future of the Web. Moderated by Nova Spivack. Worth to have a look at !
Panelists
Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.
Jon Udell, Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
Prabhakar Raghavan, PhD, Head [...]
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