Apple wants to simplify desktop search.

Apple works on desktop search. Steve jobs says- "Search is a problem for every personal computer company. It's easier to find a document in a million pages(Sandeep says-don't you mean 4 billion, Steve?) on the Web using Google than it is to find a document on your hard drive." Sounds like a case of Good IT reducing search costs!

I wanted to point out to the class the right way to post a link.

This is the wrong way. "Prof. Sandeep's page is http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep."

This is the right way. "Prof. Sandeep's page is here."

The second approach makes it much more readable. To do this, 1-select text, 2-click on the "insert link" icon in the post window (it is the one just after B and I- it looks like a globe with handcuffs- don't even ask) and 3-enter(or paste) the link in the dialog box that pops up.

Google Bomb

This is an interesting story that I found about the glitch on google search algorithm that makes someone's site to be displayed in top rank or first page of the search result. It's published back in year 2002 and I just wondering if they already fix it.

http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm

If it's not fixed yet, it's probably can be a good way to "hack" google to have your site displayed in top rank :D

Enjoy!
Dicky

Better Googling

Here is a link which gave me a broader perspective on the potential of Google and what exciting things you can do with it...this search engine can even calculate and do conversions!

Read more on: http://www.sreetips.com/google.html

How to post.

On this blog, I expect all of you to post interesting things relating to search and the web. See Khambee and Matthew's posts for ideas. You can also see bigger blogs such as Slashdot for ideas. In addition to posting, you could also comment on others posts. I have deleted the posts that just said testing. This should conserve space. Add value, folks.

Welcome to the class blog! I hope to see all of you participate in full force here. Post on matters related to the class.