Until the four major US search engines were subpoenaed by the government, searcher anonymity and privacy was a yawn of concern for most, even if there were a few Paul Reveres out there. After complying with the order, though MSN and others promised no personally identifiable information was given, the slippery slope got a whole lot slicker.
Searching For Love In Britney’s Poker Room
Where do broken hearts go? Can they find their way home; back to the open screen of a chat room waiting there? And if somebody searches, what are they searching for? They look at the query bar, and know a poker game is there somewhere My apologies to Whitney. Wait. After that reality show with Bobby, she should apologize to us.
Searching for Emails
Is search done yet? Quick, find a list of 100 bloggers. Now, quick, tell me what their email addresses are.
Searching the Gray Areas of the Red China-Net
This article was written in September 2005 but was not published at the time. In light of recent events, though, we thought it especially pertinent.
Searching Enron: Smut Or Just Business?
If you’re company is one you think may end up being investigated by the federal government, here’s a tip: Delete anything that might upset your mother. Enron employees are facing further embarrassment after the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission released the company’s cache of some half-million employee emails, now easily searchable online to professional and amateur muckrakers.
What Jeeves Was Searching For
The folks at Ask Jeeves released their top searches list and it was a list of usual suspects. They broke the list down into top news stories, top celebrity searches, top pictures, top health, top entertainment and top sports. Unfortunately, my name didn’t appear anywhere in the listagain.
Spotlight, mdfind (Mac OS X Tiger searching)
Most users will probably see Spotlight as an enhanced, very fast file searcher: something that builds an index of files and their contents, and can very quickly search that index and return results.
Google Searching For Korean Opportunity
Interviews are taking place at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View to fill several roles in Seoul, including product managers, marketing managers and finance managers, and a CEO.
Spiders With Ears, Searching The Podcast Future
The potential as well as the rapid early adoption of the podcast has the Internet industry buzzing to the point that some media aficionados are singing the dirges of print and traditional radio. At the forefront of the phenomenon is WebmasterRadioFM, a company that is developing the kind of artificial intelligence capable of spidering mp3 files for indexing. Yes, spiders with ears.
Searching For Words With Yahoo And Google
It’s 4 in the morning. You’ve been ought all night doing things you shouldn’t have and now you’re hungry. At that hour, choices are limited. You know that Waffle House is around here somewhere but which end of town is it on? Trying text searching (if you can still type) with Yahoo or Google. They will give you good directions.