How you could build a search that the fediverse would welcome

Mastodon and the fediverse are clearly taking off, bringing in millions of new users, and also organically inspiring a wave of technical innovation that dwarfs...

Underscores, Optimization & Arms Races

A dozen years ago, the web started to reshape itself around major companies like Google. We can understand the genesis of today’s algorithmic arms race against...

The lost infrastructure of social media.

More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have...

Google's advantage is RAM

Update: Read the comments. Dan and Joshua, who know way more about this stuff than I do, explain why I’m wrong and help me clarify what I’m really asking for....

google's first mistake

So, yeah, everybody’s gonna be buzzing about Google buying Pyra , but my take is that it’s not really that great a fit. Of course, Google bought Deja, which is...

a google feature suggestion

I want to be able to query Google’s database with a date filter. "Find me only pages that were added to the database before last year." "Find me...

Semant-O-Matic

I’ve been remiss in not pointing out Maciej ‘s work on the Semant-O-Matic . This remarkable little search engine uses a technique called “latent semantic...

Google Search: <Microsoft>

Google Search Microsoft . Or here .

To Raging Search and Google,

To Raging Search and Google, add ExcitePrecision Search . Looks crappy.

I guess raging search is

I guess raging search is supposed to be like " AltaVista, Google Edition ". Interesting concept, I haven’t had time to do a full test yet…

Somehow I find these results

Somehow I find these results satisfying.

Lycos 50

I’m wondering why I didn’t know about this before, but it’s really damned cool : The Lycos 50 is a regular column that is written based on the top 50 items that...