Google is experimenting with search. Basic idea: when you’re signed in to your Google account, you’ll see the option of voting results up/down and to add comments to results. This doesn’t (yet) impact the results others see. It’s supposed to help personalize search. Results are mixed. Some hate it. Others question it. Others love it.

This is good news...seems that content that is contained with Flash files and whatever teeny tiny amount of content is contained in Silverlight files ...is becoming searchable...an odd twist, as of 3 July it's reported that MSFT Live Search isn't indexing Flash content...

Here is the spiffy tool I am looking for: A YouTube / Google Video service for Interactive Flash files. Oh yeah - gotta be free. And I'd like to be able to post it on my blog (just like YouTube / Google Video) I think it would be neat to be able to share our stuff without having to develop an entire web site. Anyone know of such a beast? Thanks.

Rich Hoeg, author of the eContent blog , sent me some links that I think are worth sharing. My favorite is a link to his post showing some Engineering Domain searches Rich created with Google Co-Op . Wink is a very cool little screencapture tool I've never heard of before. Its Windows only, but at least its freeware. Thanks for sharing, Rich! This is some great new stuff!

It's surprising how much I learn by watching my kids (now 13, 11 and 8) go through school today. I've mentioned before the experience of the Ten Year Old Wikipedia Update and also my questioning of Cursive Writing . The most recent aha is the learning associated with kids search behavior. My recent experience was my son's write-up of his science ... search has become the starting point for a lot and they know that define: and Wikipedia provide starting points. And, please ... . After some Google searching we found that it was caused by basically squeezing the water out leaving a solid.

... functionality ... You will now find a new search engine on the wiki ... wiki linked sites search. This capability was constructed using Google Custom Search (see my tutorial on building search engines). The new index includes all ... new content. I've embedded the code in this post to allow you to sample the search engine: Engineering Learning Wiki Site Search:   Remember, the wiki also has four other custom engineering learning search engines: Courses Lego Robotics Podcasts Seminars Each of these four search engines index ...

Ray Sims has been doing great stuff on his blog. He does a great job of breaking down topics into smaller pieces. A recent example - Content Search: Use Cases - which explores some of the different ways we search for things and helps us think about when Google might be a good answer and when it's likely not.

As I mentioned before more than half of the traffic to my blog comes from search engines. Of course, that doesn't ... look at various search terms that people use to find my blog. This morning I had a really good chuckle because I saw that the search: top 10 reasons not to do your homework Put me in position number 2 on Google (at least on the servers in ... homework. This made me wonder what else people were searching for, having me come up in the results list AND deciding to ... there's some hidden meaning that I somehow get found for these searches. Maybe there's a subliminal message hidden ...

... via Jack Vinson's post Knowledge workers do more than search , found the article: Beyond Search is REAP . The point is that searching is really just the beginning for most activities. From the post: Beyond Search is REAP - Retrieve, Extract, Arrange, Present. We're still not there with the deeper tools and the whole experience we desire for truly reaping the value from all that's available to us on the Internet. Consider the typical information work flow of a ... €" arrange documents and facts for use now or later Present â€" compose information into artifacts of value Search ...

I rely pretty heavily on Google Blog Search to help me find people who are citing blog posts of mine so that I can see that kind of conversation. Unfortunately, it looks like Google Blog Search has decided that they will now include the entire contents of the web page rather than just the contents of the RSS feed. What this means is that I now get links to every post where the author includes my blog in their blog roll. This completely defeats my purpose. I want a nice clean RSS feed of any posts that include links to my various sites. I can't tell if this is something that ...

Interesting post by Donald Clark that points to a BCC article - Web users 'getting more selfish' . The article is a bit over the top in terms of headline, but it's main point is: people are becoming much less patient when they go online. Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave. Hardly selfish really. Most of our activity is looking up information, so the most common use case is search, evaluate, keep ... page or destination inside a site. In 2008, said Dr Nielsen, only 25% of people travel via a homepage. The rest search ...

... works since I won't be in San Francisco anytime soon... I'm hoping to see that the search and results are ...

Skip to navigation | Skip to content Search Results Share your knowledge. Make a difference. Whats ... Search: Go Sort by ... Picky Refine this search by clicking on one of these relevant tags ... Search Within These ...

There is something about the "Web 3.0" hype that is fundamentally bothering me. I can't quite put my finger on it. Nicholas Carr has found what he considers the "first major Web 3.0 application" in Freebase . If Web 2.0 was about social connection. Web 3.0 seems to be about "mining meaning". Oh, and maybe having your software help you find that meaning for you. Hmmm....... Each time I read information on Web 3.0 apps - I keep thinking of librarians. Many librarians I know help teach you how to analyse information. Who is presenting the information? What's the bias? Can you ...

How many organizations about which you know do competitive analysis in the area of formal learning programs? "Competitor X is killing us in the marketplace, and they do program Y?" My gut feel is not that many, but I would love to hear about examples where they do.

... seeing as rapid adoption of search technologies inside the firewall. But, likely, you are at fault as well, after all, What desktop search are you using? If the answer is "none" ... then get with it. Desktop search via tools such as X1 will ... folders. I used to spend a lot of time worrying about rules in my email. Not anymore. Just search and you will find. Soon ... information. Interestingly, I think the algorithms that Google relies on for searching the public web (based on incoming ...

... take a look at their new search engine ... you know ... better kind of mouse trap and all that kind of nonsense. While Google will remain my main search bookmark, I was pleasantly surprised with my SoftFix results and they are now part of my search tools. Let me explain the process (and give you some screen shots): Using the SortFix User Interface ... what you're thinking. Doesn't Google already provided suggested alternative searches? While the answer to that question is yes, the SortFix graphical UI simplified the ability to make decisions on modifying my Google search ...

... šÃ‚'t Work ÂÂ- Search Engine Lowdown I guess I tend to agree with Danny Sulliivan about the tagging and search but that is not the original intention of tagging. If I want to search on a key word, I will still go to Google as the ... use del.icio.us which I have done already in co-authoring an article. Interesting, Bill points to a search on Google ... pretty dang good result and makes sense given Google's in-bound link based algorithm. If you do a similar search on ... search against, but the quality level of results doesn't seem to be there. A closely related great series of articles ...

As I reported in Google Blog Search Problems , Google seems to have included the full text of blog pages (including blog rolls) in their blog search. I just saw this post which both confirms that Google changed something which is causing the problem and that then intend to fix it. According to Jeremy Hylton of the Google Blog Search team , they now ... course, but it's causing some problems, particularly for people who have alerts set or do searches for references to ... leave all my blog search filters in place and they will stop feeding me a lot of extra stuff. Browse eLearning ...

... promotes legitimate links The results returned are valuable Like all search engines, your need to learn how to ... from a university or manufacturer. I've also added this search engine to the manuals section of the ...

Yesterday I created a screen cast on LinkedIn for Finding Expertise . Today, I saw a post on our Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals where someone said: I am currently trying to find a SME experienced with Moodle (a CMS/LMS) and WizIQ (synchronous web class technology). I posted a query about this to several of the groups that I've joined on LinkedIn and have received about a dozen responses so far. I have yet to discover (through further research) which (if any) of the responses will be most helpful to me. This is definitely a knowledge work task where talking to someone will help.

A new search tool is in the footer of LCB for you to try out. Swicki is a new twist on search that promises a more contextualized and a customizable community search. It begins with someone, me in our case, creating an initial instance of the search tool naming key topics that might be interesting to the community. In addition, you can designate universal key worlds that every returned page must include. I chose to require "learning" for the LCB search. You can similarly designate key websites to target or to avoid. You can set the search to give priority to blogs and/or your ...

I built this Google Co-op search engine for myself, and decided I might as well make it available to everyone. The index is the " mobile friendly web pages " of the Internet Tablet Talk Forum .  Thus, the search engine and your results will load much quicker via your Nokia N800 or N810 tablet. Browse Content - Mobile Friendly Pages Search Content - Mobile Friendly Pages   ...

... excerpt and a video interview. Via Cognitive Edge . Users Don't Search Google Effectively, Costing 40+ Hours of Productivity Each Year - BusinessWire Boost eLearning discovered that 39 percent of all Google searches fail, leading to ... perform about 12 searches per day and, statistically, 4.7 of those searches do not obtain the desired results. Respondents also report that they spend an average of 30.8 minutes per day searching online. Planning with Post-it Notes ...

Google Labs has quietly rolled out a new search capability which allows one to search the audio content of YouTube videos. Right now they are only indexing political content ... thus if you want to see what Obama or McCain ... or any other politican is saying about the proposed federal bailout ... try a search on "federal reserve". This could be huge if expanded to other content. If you only think of YouTube as a provider of whimsical video, then you are missing the boat. See my prior post on using Google Video or YouTube as a research tool, or check out my own ...

Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits : eLearning Technology ... Where Tagging DoesnÃ??t Work Ã?? Search Engine Lowdown I guess I tend to agree with Danny Sulliivan about the tagging and search but that is not the original intention of tagging. If I want to search on a key word, I will still go to Google ... , I will use del.icio.us which I have done already in co-authoring an article. Interesting, Bill points to a search on ... pretty dang good result and makes sense given Googles in-bound link based algorithm. If you do a similar search ...

Search - Implications on Knowledge Work : eLearning Technology ... are not seeing as rapid adoption of search technologies inside the firewall. But, likely, you are at fault as well, after all, What desktop search are you using? If the answer is "none" ... then get with it. Desktop search via tools such ... content into folders. I used to spend a lot of time worrying about rules in my email. Not anymore. Just search and you will ... piece of information. Interestingly, I think the algorithms that Google relies on for searching the public web (based ...

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I've recently been dealing with naming for a start-up and ran across a WSJ article - You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well . Given how hard it is to figure out business names, reading this was a little scary: So when Ms. Wilson, now 32, was pregnant with her first child, she ran every baby name she and her husband, Justin, considered through Google to make sure her baby wouldn't be born unsearchable. Her top choice: Kohler, an old family name that had the key, rare distinction of being uncommon on the Web when paired with Wilson. "Justin and I wanted our son's name to be as special ...