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"where all orgs, non-profits, academia, startups, small and big companies, from all over the world can build"
Tweet from Clement Delangue.
Intervenr
Weblink post sharing Stanford's Intervenr platform for sociotechnical audits.
"Few consumers would find alternative sources a suitable substitute for general search services."
Have, could, would, should?
[how to change the oil on a 1965 Mustang]
Is this a query for which “only general search engines return links to websites with information you might be looking for”?
[How do you teach your toddler that “bad guys” is a category error?]
A discussion of mismatch in the search experience (between query, presented search results, and content) and missing contextually-relevant explanations.
"an activist reached out and showed him how certain websites he had built were supporting human trafficking"
An excerpt from Lewis's "The people who ruined the internet"
Search Quality Complaints
Early draft exploring sources of search failures and related research on algorithms of oppression, search quality complaints, and sociotechnical imaginaries around Google Search.
"I'm having a much harder time finding news clips via Google search than a few months ago."
A search quality complaint from journalist Louise Matsakis.
ssr: "What's the phrase to describe when an algorithm doesn't take into effect it's own influence on an outcome?"
A social-search-request from Paula Goldman.
Aggressively Imagining Funding Models for Generative Web Search
I argue that we should use this opportunistic to rethink what search could be.
I decided to start trying out ripgrep: `brew install ripgrep`; setup a .ripgreprc; use `rg`; started a ripgrep query pattern log...
A status post re trying out ripgrep.
ssr: "What is the equivalent of SEO, but for navigating the physical built environment?"
A social-search-request from Chenoe Hart.
"increase your searchability"
A note on non-digital searchability, search & rescue, and search engine optimization.
qChecker - a script to check for quotes in a source document
Towards minimizing harm from “hallucinations” and other baloney.
So does Google have an Official search API?
Can the Programmable Search Engine's Custom Search JSON API be said to be an official web search API?
"might be the biggest SEO development we've had in a long time"
Tweet from Lily Ray.
warnings in search results
Loose notes on Google's search result warnings for unreliable or rapidly evolving topics, with Vox and Verge reporting on the feature's 2021 rollout.
“Bard may display inaccurate or offensive information”
How might Google support users to calibrate trust within the tool itself?
data voids
Early draft covering data voids and research on how search engine reliance on source popularity can surface extreme-right content for migration-related queries in Germany and Sweden.