Google “bias” survey — start of a flame war?
Results of a survey of bias in the search algorithms of Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, and Ask.
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The year of searching
A review of 2010 from the perspective of search engine design.
The Web: getting deeper and more invisible
The view of the World Wide Web provided by general search engines, such as Google, is very limited. A recent study suggests that the “surface” Web (accessed by general search engines) consists of about 167 terabytes of information, whilst the “Deep” web holds about 91 000 terabytes. Special services have been developed to explore the Deep Web. Find out more . . .
Google Books: how does it work?
A modified searching algorithm has been introduced for Google Books, that takes account of one hundred predictive indicators of “title” relevance.
Displaying and linking search results
Pearltrees (http://www.pearltrees.com) offers an attractive way of mapping sites and creating links between sites that you use and wish to pass on to others.