Category Archives: search.name

What does .ORG stand for / mean?

One of my friends is a big fan of .ORG (managed by PIR). Today, I got an idea for how to figure out the meaning of “dot org”. Google it, bing it — and see what comes up! Well, this … Continue reading

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Thinking out of the Box: Content, Context and Containers

People often talk about the importance of context when they talk about content — but that leaves out a very important piece of information: the container. For years, I used to equate the container with the context — obviously, I … Continue reading

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“All the web’s information” is informative — but some of the web’s information is MORE informative

Here’s a new variation on the theme of a famous marketing pitch / slogan: I think it is easier if you work with facebook comments and disqus platform and a couple of others to make the content readable and you’re … Continue reading

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A Brief Outline of Communal Search

Social entrenpreneurs should build and develop more communal search platforms on the web. Search Nominations Post Forum

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The Democracy Gap and the Wisdom of the Language

Great article that analyzes the role of the Wisdom of the Language — i.e. the chasm between the Washington, D.C. community jargon and the language of its constituents (who are somewhat oddly referred to as “the rest of human civilization”) … Continue reading

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Is the World-Wide Web a Moving Target?

Yes, it is — yet it probably doesn’t move around quite as quickly as Google want you to believe it does. If you use the google.com search engine today to search for “occupy“, several of the top 10 results will … Continue reading

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Search Optimization of Health Websites using Health-Related Domain Names

I want to commend the authors of the report “Measuring the value of search” recently published at mckinsey.com: In this research, we define search to include the use of horizontal search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, as well as … Continue reading

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