Word of the release of an exciting new project from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Thomson Reuters. From the Berkman Center Site: Researching the nature of news, and media information flows, has always faced a difficult challenge: there is so much produced by so many outlets that...

So, How I Met Your Mother hasn’t been on for the last two weeks. I’m going through withdrawal. I’m also getting increasingly annoyed, because I sit down to watch TV at the designated time and there’s no show on. Or, maybe even worse, a repeat. Why can’t there be a way t...

Twitter search is better than it sed to be, but still, finding people on Twitter is not easy. Here are three ways to find the people you are looking for whether you are looking for old friends or you want to meet new people. Twitter’s own people search lets you search for people you know by en...

Or How I Went from Fund-Raiser to Stalker in an Afternoon A while back, I worked part-time for an alumni association that was trying to track down old alumni and solicit them for donations. It’s a process really. Here’s how I did it. (Please don’t be a stalker. That’s just ru...

“Semantic” is a word with a magic ring to it in search engine circles. The way it’s hyped makes you suspect it is the second coming of search. Hypes make me skeptical and I have been biding my time, waiting for the technology to mature. Now the time has come and I’m glad to p...

Ask is determine to fight the search engine battle with the big three, which is good. But then it goes and does something stupid as framing search results. This week Ask.com announced that it is moving into a new data center. The company would not have invested that kind of money if they didn’...

Jon Orwant is a highly confident man. Some might say (and a few certainly did to me) that he is one of the great egotists of our epoch. By his own admission, he is certainly not an amateur. But then when you’re the Engineering Manager for the world’s biggest search engine, and you’...

Have you ever pined over a lost love? Is there someone out there that owes you money? Or maybe you just want to track down a long lost buddy. We have seen a few FREE searches online but none of them compares to Pipl. After trying it out I was amazed at the amount of information that is freely availa...

The Inside Google Book Search blog has announced that it is closing down its Google Catalog Search Product. If you have never heard about it, don’t worry, it was never really meant to become a popular product. Its real use was to help Google conquer the world. The Pandia Post presented Google ...

If you are a quick fingered photo-snapper or a wallpaper junkie then the thousand of images on your hard drive could be a treasure hoard. But scattered among them could also be a few hundred duplicate images eating up space on your hard drive. Even worse, un-optimized raw images could be eating up c...