New domain: orchycore.com
I've now given this blog its very own domain name: orchycore.com and have switched to s9y software, because we've found it easy to include blogs in our other sites.
No more posts here! Off to orchycore.com thanks everyone.
Web publishing, online research, stats, webmining and search engines.
I've now given this blog its very own domain name: orchycore.com and have switched to s9y software, because we've found it easy to include blogs in our other sites.
It just occurred to me as I was doing a vanity search that lead to Google Books: wouldn't books be the ultimate authoritative source of links for a search engine?
The Australian Internet Industry Association has published a risk analysis for different kinds of entities for the federal government's new copyright legislation. Scary stuff. Here it is for small businesses.
I don't remember the last time I spent 4 hours on one site. But Pandora's got me. I'm gonna blog about it again.
While I'm blogging, I'd like to thank everyone involved with STIRR. Creative party games made for a good vibe in the room and it was a good focused crowd. Our glorious team, team 3 won with our ShoeWave.com business; a peer to peer sock sharing service where you send in an odd sock with a dollar, and receive 2 matching socks back in the mail. Genius :).
Just tried out ChaCha, a new stab at the old humans-search-for-you concept. The conversation was very slow. Each response took 1-3 minutes and overall it was about half an hour. I guess if you wanted to use them effectively you could open up 10 windows and ask 10 questions. I hope they have good protection against bots running thousands of queries at once.
Status: Looking for a guide ...
Status: Connected to guide: ErinL
ErinL: Welcome to ChaCha!
ErinL: hello!
You: Hi!
ErinL: Welcome to ChaCha! Please wait a moment while I search for your results.
You: are you there?
ErinL: yes I'm still searching. i'm just getting the news show.
You: it's an australian show
You: a comedy
You: different the us one
ErinL: I've found it. bare with me.
ErinL: this is the correct show, right?
You: Yep
You: I'll give you a clue
You: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22rob+sitch+played%22+frontline&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2006-41,GGLD:en
ErinL: here is the wikipedia site. he played Mike Moore.
You: Thanks..Does that url come up now?
ErinL: Are these results sufficient? Is there anything else I can find for you?
You: Yep what's the most popular site published by Rapid Intelligence?
ErinL: ok bare with me as I find that answer as well.
ErinL: Is this what you are looking for?
You: ..
ErinL: hmmm?
You: is somehting supposed tocome up in the guide results now?
You: I don't see a url
ErinL: yes. you should have 3.
ErinL: www.rapint.com
You: nothing showed up..I'm using firefox
You: one more question.. Who is the opposition leader in Australia?
ErinL: oooh. I don't think it's compatible with fire fox. This is the 2nd time I've had this happen.
ErinL: if I give you the www site can you find it from there? I'm not familiar with firefox.
You: yep no prob
ErinL: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontline_%Australian_TV_series%29
ErinL: www.rapint.com for the rapid intelligence question
ErinL: I hope this helps you. If not let me know. Is there anything else I can do?
You: Yep Who is the opposition leader in Australia?
ErinL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_Opposition_Leaders
ErinL: It's Kevin Rudd.
You: Thank you
You: One more quesiton: where are you based?
[many minutes pass]
ErinL: Thanks for searching ChaCha! Have a nice day. thank you.
ErinL: Please RATE ME. Thanks for using ChaCha.
Status: Session ended.
Status: Looking for a guide ...
Status: Connected to guide: AmandaG
AmandaG: Welcome to ChaCha!
AmandaG: Chacha is based in Indiana.
You: Where are you personally right now? (which city)
[10 minutes pass. Things start getting really slow here]
You: are you there?
You: Are you checking to see if you're allowed to answer this or?
You: Hello?
You: Thanks, I'm done.
Status: Session ended.
Status: Looking for a guide ...
Status: Connected to guide: Steven C
Steven C: Welcome to ChaCha!
Steven C: hi
You: Hi Steven
Steven C: hi
You: where are you?
Steven C: in USA
You: Ok thanks
Wikipedia-Watch.org owner, Daniel Brandt has published a report showing widespread plagiarism in Wikipedia.
Hats off to Google Labs for creating the first search engine to allow regular expressions, even if it's just for their new code search engine.