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Here are tweets that make me think of Bailey and Leonardi's work on bridging gaps.

Notes on a fear of Google abandoning Google Scholar.

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.

As a searcher, can you avoid featured snippets on Google? Five possible options.

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.

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...

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...

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\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...

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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.

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.

I wrote some initial rambling musings on finding new running routes a few months ago: learn how to google trail routes Another way to find new running routes (or, say in the case of my PhD research, s...

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.

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.

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.

Initial tentative rambling musings on this perfect intersection of my trail running & PhD obsessions: Based on messages I get to all my social media accounts y’all need to learn how to google trail ro...

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.\"

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.

An account of my Bigfoot 200. Acknowledgments At the start of this writing I must acknowledge my father who was there for me at the start of the race, there well before the start, and there at all the...