Small steps

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 [...]

“Data is the New Hot, Drop-dead Gorgeous Field”

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 [...]

Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis

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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This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs. The channel is sponsored [...]

Spezify: Search Engine for Visualized Statistics?

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 [...]

Yebol: Semantic Search Engine for Statistics?

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 [...]

Real-time Search

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 [...]

Wolfram Alpha is online

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:

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To compute whatever can be computed about the world: Wolfram Alpha

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 [...]

Google Begins to Make Public Data Searchable (ReadWriteWeb)

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 [...]

History of official statistics from Google News

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 [...]

Blogging and Being Blogged

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 [...]

21 years ago, the Knowledge Navigator …

… 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.

The Web: My genie in the bottle.

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 [...]