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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.
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advertising information retrieval interests
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...
postcolonial localization in search
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.
pressing enter in an empty search box
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.
Searching Temporally?
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.
learn how to google trail routes
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...
searching entangled and enfolded
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.\"
ad z'njinz'tum
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.
the bigfoot proof
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...
orange ribbons
Running the [San Diego 100][1] last weekend provided me hours and hours to reflect on running and life. One particular reflection dealt with signals. The course, one hundred point two miles of trail,...