Category: tweets

Daniel Griffin

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Daniel Griffin

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Daniel Griffin

A speculative tweet thread on terminology choices in documentation, library and information sciences, and information retrieval.

Daniel Griffin

the impetus to search... spaces that reward curiosity... ways to distribute evaluation

Daniel Griffin

The briefest introduction.

Daniel Griffin

Collection of tweets describing academic search workflow using Twitter, Semantic Scholar, local whoosh index, and various citation tools while exploring alternatives to Google Scholar.

Daniel Griffin

Documents how Google's query parsing uniquely fails to return results for a hyphenated data void term from Golebiewski & boyd (2018), while other search engines handle the query successfully.

Daniel Griffin

Speculative design exercise imagining a beneficent Google that would point users to alternative search systems and community resources in content advisories, rather than just saying there aren't matches.

Daniel Griffin

A survey of search engine UX micro-interactions, documenting which sites have the search cursor ready on page load versus those that don't, including some surprising failures from academic and library search tools.

Daniel Griffin

Frames a critical question about Google's cultural assumptions and localization technologies through postcolonial computing discourse, examining power, authority, and cultural encounter in search suggestions.

Daniel Griffin

An analysis of micro-interactions across search interfaces: how Stack Overflow, GitHub, Gmail, and Twitter differently handle the user action of pressing Enter in an empty search box.

Daniel Griffin

A brief inquiry into the availability and affordances of temporal search operators (date-based search constraints), noting the lack of research attention to this aspect of search behavior.

Daniel Griffin

Explores how search algorithms fail to account for their own influence on outcomes, connecting sociomateriality theory to the Matthew Effect in web search rankings and the production of \"epistemic automaticity.\"

Daniel Griffin

A reflection on an OCR error that transformed 'ad infinitum' into the beautiful nonsense phrase 'ad z'njinz'tum,' followed by a comparative analysis of how Google, DuckDuckGo, and Bing handle exact-phrase searches for the typo.