The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - Again
The hard problems remain, how to use a tool to do something you or someone else wants.
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consumer search?
What does 'consumer search' mean?
more than a party trick?
Can Google Lens be more than a party trick?
still searching for gorillas
still searching for gorillas (or not?)
conventional search engines are limited to retrieving pre-existing webpages?
mastodon.social/@danielsgriffin
My paper with Emma Lurie was published
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search automation bias (SAB)
Search automation bias is one term for the production of epistemic automaticity in the Google Web Search paradigm.
Looking at harmful & empowering uses of Twitter Search (prospectus)
Here is text of my prospectus for applying to the 2021 Information Operations Fellowship with Twitter’s Trust & Safety Team.
Searching Mastodon?
What do the communities on Mastodon think about full text search?
Tweets that make me think of bridging technology gaps
Here are tweets that make me think of Bailey and Leonardi's work on bridging gaps.
fear of Google abandoning Google Scholar
Notes on a fear of Google abandoning Google Scholar.
Regina Bateson is not a politician, Google
Yet again someone is compelled to take to Twitter to issue a complaint to Google about incorrect information about them in search results and to appeal for correction.
"I wish there was a way to turn off snippets."
As a searcher, can you avoid featured snippets on Google? Five possible options.
end-of-line hyphenation
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.
trace-watery-biases
Looking at a recent paper from Jill Walker Rettberg[^1]—discussing a method of "algorithmic failure", which "uses the mispredictions of machine learning to identify cases that are of interest for qual...
low-code search?
Musings on seeing the below tweet: How might the experience searching (for solutions or fixes) when building with low-code tools differ from the more code-centric (wc?) tools (like Python or Bash)? Sc...
My paper with Emma Lurie was accepted
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laughing at searches
\My PhD dissertation looks at jokes made about searching. Shared self- & group-directed joking among data engineers construct an appropriate reliance on web searching at work for work. They tell the j...
My paper with Jake Goldenfein was published
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Imagining a beneficent search engine
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.