Yearly Archives: 2007

TQR — Metasearch Puppy Piles vs. Lone Wolf Search Engines

All search engines are not the same and all search engines do not return the same results. Ask each of the big four search engines the same ques­tion and you’ll get four very dif­fer­ent sets of answers. Well duh…  But just how dif­fer­ent are the results? Different Engines, Different Results, pub­lished in April by the good … 

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TQR — New York Magazine Interview with Edward Tufte

The mas­ter has a new book out: “Beautiful Evidence.” There’s an inter­view with him in New York Magazine. I sug­gest read­ing it on-line for the sim­ple plea­sure of read­ing some­thing on a site that makes read­ing on-line if not plea­sur­able then at least pos­si­ble. (Check out text siz­er con­trol just above the title.) Thanks to InfoDesign … 

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Personalization of Your News Coverage — Even if You Don’t Become a Member

The saga of TV sta­tion search wierd­ness con­tin­ues. For the last few days I have been doing a bunch of search inter­face test­ing on the news sites of our local TV sta­tions. I had a stan­dard list of search sub­jects that I ran through all the sites. One of which was “motor­cy­cle chase”. (Other searches … 

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Blog Roll Updates

Some new campers in the cab­in this after­noon. xkcd — Sweet, geeky stick fig­ure car­toons. Well, maybe not sweet. Very exis­ten­tial. Very occa­sion­al. Very worth wait­ing for. Joho the Blog — David Weinberger’s intrigu­ing and occa­sion­al­ly mad­den­ing­ly insights into all things inter­net and beyond. Modern Mechanix — I just love these reprints from our geeky past. … 

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