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An online initiative which asks members of the public to classify galaxies recorded unprecedented traffic in its first 48 hours.
2009-02-20
Internet search galaxy spotting crowdsourcing collaborativeApparently, many people don't know what's a browser and they think it's the same thing as a search engine.
2009-06-17
Google search browser search engineGoogle reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in their search results. "We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow...
2009-10-21
Google Twitter search real timeTwitter has signed deals to put messages sent via the microblogging service into the Microsoft and Google search indexes.
2009-10-22
Twitter Google Microsoft search instantaneousSearch is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken. Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will start to change all that. Grub started back in 2000 with a simple concept of distributing part of the search process pipeline: crawling. In a way, we were a...
More and more public agencies, non-profits and other organizations are looking for ways to open up their data and expand global access to this kind of information.
2010-03-08
Google public information visualization statistics search