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11/19/2008
We discuss several different ways to find out information about people through their Web presence.
Class structure
Go through “At beginning of class” information
Go through...
Description of what the course is about, what we'll do in the class, why students should take it, why all their friends should take it.
Class held on 09/09/2009. (student notes; possible...
Someone is going to put their notes here.
Everyone will be able to see it.
And change as necessary.
Description of what the course is about, what we'll do in the class, why students should take it, why all their friends should take it.
Class held on 09/03/2008. Student notes are available on...
Discuss basics of Web search and why students should use multiple search tools (rather than just Google).
Class held on 09/08/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions...
Discuss basics of Web search and why students should use multiple search tools (rather than just Google).
Class held on 09/14/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
At beginning of...
BIT 330 Class Notes – September 14, 2009
I. Signing Up for Assignments
Login to Wikidot, then return to www.howcanifindit.com
Direct your browser to the bottom of the assignment page and click...
Class #2: Google is not enough!
This class is an overview of search - what is there to use other than google?
People look for information all the time - for class, for personal reasons, and in job...
1. Which of the Following is the Only Search Engine that Can Find Pages Containing Pages Related to a Page?
a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. Bing
d. Ask
2. Which of the Following Represents "Precision" as...
Short Answer Topics
1. How can a search engine's performance be evaluated?
2. List three ways search engines are different from each other?
Created on 1252946255|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by samoore
For Yahoo, I got 434,000,000. There are many ads that come up addressing climate change, what people can do to "live green," as well as some...
Created on 1252946465|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by tfornero
For Bloglines I got 583,800
For Technorati I got 66,191. Also gives a suggestion to check out the Green Channel page with a link. Let's you...
Created on 1252946732|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by kfreels
For Silobreaker, news results are categorized by the 'entity' it came from, such as a keyphrase of Global Warming/Climate Change or a specific...
Created on 1252946688|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by bavidar
Answers:
When I searched Google for Gerald Ford, 3,250,000 searches were returned. They consisted of 10 links, video results, images, related...
Created on 1252946425|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by ranfan
Google: 6,140,000 for intitle:"climate change"
Bing: 196,000 results
Ask.com: 208,500 results
dir.yahoo.com: 57 results
www.yahoo.com: 7,130,000...
Created on 1252946658|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by jenmmart
"climate change" site:epa.gov
For Google, I got 67,800 results.
For Bing, I got 255,000 results.
For Ask, I got 12,300 results.
I got 55,500...
Created on 1252946636|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by rolay117
In google, I got 3,390,000
For Google, I got 12,700,000. My search was "climate change inurl:.gov"
Was this too broad? aegreen
For some...
Created on 1252946538|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by aegreen
There were about 1,490,000 results. aegreen
For google, I got 13,700 results.
Google produced 1,490,000 for [climate change inurl:library] in...
Created on 1252946648|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by joshuaaa
1,180 results for Google
I got 1,110,000 using this query: "link: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/" Did I do something wrong here?
Yup, you...
Created on 1252946695|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p by robo24wolverine
Google and Bing provide stock price charts, and a couple of links to Yahoo Finance, Google Finance and MSN Money.
Ask.com, on the other...
As you work through these exercises, make sure that there is an answer for each of the exercises. Click on the "answer" page and either verify your answer or add your write-up of the answer to the...
These exercises are meant to run you through a few of twitter's capabilities so that you're familiar with them when you need to use them.
Upload a headshot (settings/picture) to your twitter...
We'll go over techniques and tricks related to using this wiki, which will also be the host of your term project wiki. We will also learn a bit more about twitter, enough to get started using...
1. True or False: Twitter is not an IM client
2. Short Answer: what is the idea behind Twitter. What should it be used for? What should it not be used for?
3. Which of the following allows you to...
We'll go over techniques and tricks related to using this wiki, which will also be the host of your term project wiki.
Class held on 09/10/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible...
Exercises
We have a couple of goals for today's exercises. The first one is for you to set up a new wikidot site that you will use for your project. The second one is for you to become familiar...
By samoore (1251644867|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The past week has been an extremely busy week for Google, especially considering it released its first Web Browser (Google Chrome). Some major news...
by joshuaaa
General Questions
In blogs, the title can be whatever you want it, but the last part of the URL has to be the [blog: title]
Bloglist is a program that goes through all the blogs and...
We go over several standard search techniques and strategies.
Class held on 09/21/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through “At beginning of class” info
Lecture...
Multiple Choice
1. The correct way to search for Chicago sports but not the Chicago Bulls is?
a. Chicago sports - Chicago Bulls
b. "Chicago sports" -Bulls
c. "Chicago sports" - Chicago Sports
d....
1. Which one of the following would not be a correct search for bit330f08.wikidot.com?
a. inurl:wikidot
b. site:bit330f08
c. site:wikidot.com
d. inurl: bit330f08
e. none of the above
2. T/F
The...
We go over several standard search techniques and strategies.
Class held on 09/15/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class...
Introduction
Everyday we search for information - the latest news, research data, random facts, etc. However, we continually struggle to find what we are looking for and search inefficiently,...
Exercises
Start up
Go to the Google home page.
Sign in to iGoogle. (If you don't have a iGoogle account, then create one.)
Change the preferences (the “preferences” button next to the search...
By samoore (1251644868|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
There are three major topics that have drawn a lot of attention recently in the world of Google:
Google Audio Indexing now on Google Labs
Google...
We go through the exercises related to search techniques; we also discuss evaluating sources from the Web.
Class held on 09/23/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go...
No Formal Presentation Today
"How many" Queries
While using quotations in queries, each search engine we have explored has the limitation of only being able find exact phrases without much...
Introduction
Everyday people search for information - the latest news, research data, random facts, etc. However, they continually struggle to find what they are looking for and search...
We go through the exercises related to search techniques; we also discuss evaluating sources from the Web.
Class held on 09/17/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions...
Exercises
Come up with a list of 30-40 cities in Michigan.
How many types of poodles are there?
How many people are in the United States?
How many teams are in the National Rugby League?
On your...
1. True/False
When you enter multiple, related items into "Google Sets", it will return a list of Web pages about groups containing your items.
2. Which of the following does not help you evaluate...
1)Where can you find automatically create sets of items from a few examples?
a)http://Setmaker.com:
b)http://labs.google.com/sets
c)http://www.yahoo.com/sets
d)http://www.labs.bing.com/sets
2)If...
By samoore (1251644868|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
There are three main news items related to Yahoo in the past week:
Yahoo! oneConnect for iPhone
Open Hack Day
Recent Controversy over the Yahoo-Google...
By samoore (1251644868|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This weekend proved to be another successful weekend for Google. With the release of the search market data for August 2008, new features added to...
Multiple Choice
1. What does RSS stand for?
a) Really Simple Sindication
b) Rich Site Summary
c) RDF Site Summary
d) All of the above
2. What is not a benefit of standardized XML formatting?
a)...
We are going to introduce the topic of RSS feeds, blogs, subscribing to RSS feeds, and the basics of searching for RSS feeds.
Class held on 09/28/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class...
This class introduced the topic of RSS feeds, blogs, subscribing to RSS feeds, and the basics of searching for RSS feeds.
Updates to Course Wiki
Announcement Page now has all the recent Tweets...
Exercises
What we're going to do first is get you signed up for on Web-based RSS feed reader. The one we're going to use to start with is Bloglines. Most students last year used this feed reader...
While focusing on Web directories, we learn about several different ways of using the work of others to help find information on the Web.
Class held on 09/22/2008. Student notes are available on...
1. What of the following is not a primary purpose of Search Spiders?
a. Collect summaries of pages
b. Find updated page information
c. Follow web links
d. Index websites for web search engines
e....
Before class stuff
Advice for Assignment due 9/29
Do it in pieces, look at it today, then again tomorrow and so on.
There isn't really a "right" answer, only what the data says. Prof doesn't even...
Find some glossaries of business terms.
Search for your personal topic on the following:
Mailing lists
Google Groups
Yahoo Groups
Use Google to find specialty resources (links, directory,...
RSS Intro:
You need to do research
How can you do it in the most time efficient way possible?
Have the information come to you.
HTML document: uses all the HTML tags, but can you tell by...
We are going to introduce the topic of RSS feeds.
Class held on 09/24/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class structure
Go through...
1. What does RSS stand for?
a. Really Simple Syndication
b. Rich Site Summary
c. RDF Site Summary
d. All of the above
2. RSS is a specific application of what?
a. HTML
b. XML
c. ATOM
d. CSS
3. What...
Exercises
What we're going to do first is get you signed up for on Web-based RSS feed reader. The one we're going to use to start with is Bloglines. Most students last year used this feed reader...
We are going to work through more exercises allowing you to explore RSS feeds and related tools.
Class held on 09/30/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through “At...
Your goal today is to find feeds for your term project. First, finish the exercises from last class. There's a couple more general things that I want you to do after you finish those exercises but...
By samoore (1251644868|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google Toolbar 5 now available in Firefox
A few months ago Google released Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. This introduced a lot of brand new...
We learn about the major news search tools, as well as how to integrate them with your knowledge of RSS.
Class held on 10/05/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through...
Multiple Choice
1) Why is a news search different than a general search?
A. It pulls results from legitimate news sources
B. Searches can be narrowed down to the period of time they were created
C....
Introduction
There was a reorganization of the Course Website so be sure to check it out. It now includes a Current To-do List so hopefully that helps with trying to figure out when assignments...
Exercises
In today's exercises you're going to do the following:
explore in-depth some familiar general news and news search sites,
make some RSS feeds from searches on those sites,
explore...
Here are the notes for class on Monday September 29th.
We are going to work through more exercises allowing you to explore RSS feeds and related tools.
Class held on 09/29/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are...
Your goal today is to find feeds for your term project. First, finish the exercises from last class. There's a couple more general things that I want you to do after you finish those exercises but...
By samoore (1251644869|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google Helps You Not Make Huge Mistakes
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
There is a new feature in Gmail, which allows you to solve math problems during...
Introduction
Today we learned about half of what we’re getting out of this class!
Issue: Information on the internet is doubling every so many years largely because of developing news. This makes...
We learn about the major news search tools, as well as how to integrate them with your knowledge of RSS.
Class held on 10/01/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are...
1. Name three online news services.
2. The news never sleeps.
a. True
b. False
3. Using online news services could be helpful in which situation?
a. Learning what caused the major financial crisis...
Exercises
Looking at the general news services
Yahoo News
Search for [US financial crisis]
Be sure to put the search terms in the “news” search box and not the “Web” search box at the...
We learn about real time information exchange and social networks, and get an introduction to real time search tools.
Class held on 10/07/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class...
As you work through these examples, both in-class and out-of-class, I want you to Twitter some information. When you use a web site that you really like or don't like or really don't understand,...
Introduction
The Deep Web is also known as the “invisible web”. This means it is invisible to the general search engine. People also refer to this as the academic web, given the nature of the...
1. Which of the following does not make up the Deep Web?
a. Real-time information
b. Pages that are proprietary
c. Content in news articles
d. Disconnected pages
e. Content retrieved as a result of...
We learn what the deep Web is and why we need to care about it.
Class held on 10/08/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class...
Exercises
Search for [timber industry california]. Also search for information related to your term project. Look at the specific sites that are returned. Look at what types of information is...
We are going to discuss the term project.
Class held on 10/12/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
At beginning of class
I will pass the...
Class 12- Research Sites
Focus on Academic research sites, basically sites to help you cite.
So far we have been focusing on the surface web, we've been connected to a bunch of html pages (they're...
We learn about several kinds of academic research sites. We also learn what the Deep Web is, why we need to care about it, and how we might go about accessing it.
Class held on 10/21/2009....
1. Which of these is NOT one of the 3 important search attributes that search engines have?
A) Comprehensive
B) Transparent
C) Integrated
D) All of the Above ARE important search attributes
2....
As you work through these examples, both in-class and out-of-class, I want you to Twitter some information. When you use a web site that you really like or don't like or really don't understand,...
1. Which of the following alerts you of changes within a page
A. WatchthatPage.com
B. TrackEngine.com
C. Yahoo Pipes
D. A and B
E. A and C.
2. How are site based alerts different from search based...
Monitoring Changes
There are millions (Google says ~ 206 million) of sites that provide email alerts. Unlike RSS feeds, these come through your email inbox, but similarly you can go out and find...
We are going to discuss different tools that can notify you in different ways and in different circumstances when some specific thing has changed on the Web: email alerts, page monitoring...
As usual, we're going to see how we can apply today's tool to your project topic.
Email alerts exercises
In all of the following, be sure to use + addressing when signing up for the alerts (if it...
We are going to discuss the different types of email alerts, how to find them, and how to generate them yourself.
Class held on 10/15/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible...
Exercises
As usual, we're going to see how we can apply today's tool to your project topic. In all of the following, be sure to use + addressing when signing up for the alerts, and then use email...
By samoore (1251644870|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I will discuss three different updates/releases in the search industry and why they are important to you.
123people
123people is a new people search...
Q. What is a custom search engine?
Answer: It is essentially using a tool to build your own Google's search engine with instructions to look at a certain list of URLs (pages, whole sites, or...
Note: additions to his notes are in bold.
Class Discussion
No notes here. Extensive discussion about how class is going, what should change, etc.
My class notes
Today we're doing custom search...
We discuss custom search engines, and how you can build your own.
Class held on 10/28/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through “At beginning of class”...
In this series of exercises, you're going to construct different versions of a custom search engine for your term project. Before you start, think of at least two or three web sites that it should...
By samoore (1251644870|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
iGoogle Re-Launch
Google revamped the iGoogle interface recently. The main changes include:
Full canvas view
Full feed reading
Improved Google...
1. Which of the following is not a way a page monitor can be delivered?
a. Summary web page
b. Bookmarking site
c. Email
d. RSS Feed
e. None of the above
2. How does WatchThatPage deliver changes...
Class News
Before class, Prof. Moore mentioned that the “Yahoo guy” will be coming sometime during November to speak to the class. All you need to know about this guy is that he’s very nice...
We discuss page monitors and then go into some detail about advanced RSS feed-manipulation Web sites.
Class held on 10/22/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are...
Exercises
Your goal today is to become more familiar with the tools for monitoring pages, creating feeds, and manipulating feeds.
Page monitors
Look at Page Monitoring Software Examples (from the...
By samoore (1251644870|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The majority of Google news this week surrounds it's new operating system, Android, and it's entrance into the mobile phone market with T-Mobile. This...
1) What is the benefit of categorizing types of pages on wikidot. Example, naming all news pages with [news:], blog posts with [blog:] etc.
2) What's the best section on the Wikidot site would you...
We worked on our projects
Class held on 11/02/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
We just worked on our projects.
Creating a list that updates automatically
To create a list that updates automatically such as the bloglist on the homepage of www.howcanifindit.com, you can do the following:
Click on "How to...
By samoore (1251644871|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
TinEye: Image Identification Technology
A useful new image search engine is TinEye by Idee (the self-described “visual search company”). TinEye,...
1. What do Delicious, Digg, and Furl have in common?
a. They are social bookmarking sites.
b. They are social news sites.
c. They are tag-based sites.
d. Both a and c
e. Both b and c
2....
We discuss social news and bookmarking sites.
Class held on 10/27/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class structure
Go through “At...
Exercises
Log on to (or create) your delicious account.
Searching
Search everybody's bookmarks for carbon trading. You just want these two words to appear somewhere in the title, description, or...
1. Which image search engine allows you to upload images and search for related images?
a. Pixolu
b. Exolead
c. Picitup
d. Tineye
2. Which image search engine is German based and also Professor...
We discuss and explore the variety of image resources and search tools available.
Class held on 10/29/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this...
Exercises
In this section you should look for information related to your term projects. Think about creating a page that points to images related to the topic at hand — you could have links that...
By samoore (1251644872|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft to Adopt Human Rights Guidelines
This Tuesday, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced that they will adopt guidelines that will...
Website Popularity
Are you wondering if the website you're using is well known, oft-used, or dying out?
You can go into Google Trends to look for websites (hmm, digg.com is dying)
If you sign...
We go through some special features of Wikidot while also quickly discussing some tools for investigating the popularity of certain Web sites.
Class held on 11/04/2009. (student notes; possible...
1) Google Trends does which of the following?
a) Returns you sets of information related to your query
b) Returns documents related to your search query
c) Gives you trending documents and...
What custom search can be embedded on a webpage?
A. Rollyo
B. Google Custom Search
C. Build A Search
D. None
What service does Topicle depend on?
A. Google
B. Yahoo
C. Ask
D. Their own search
Name...
We discuss custom search engines, and how you can build your own.
Class held on 11/03/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class...
Exercises
In this series of exercises, you're going to construct different versions of a custom search engine for your term project. Before you start, think of at least two or three URLs that it...
By samoore (1251644872|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In the last U.S. Presidential Election, 64% of the U.S. population 18 and older voted. That's up from the 60% of the eligible voting population that...
1. Which of the following describes CompFight
a) Image Search
b) Flickr Search Tool
c) News Image Search Tool
d) a&b
e) All of the above
2. Which of the following combination of tools search...
We discuss and explore the variety of image resources and search tools available.
Class held on 11/09/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through “At beginning of...
In this section you should look for information related to your term projects. Think about creating a page that points to images related to the topic at hand — you could have links that point to...
Introduction
11/9/2009
In class, we have outlined the numerous different ways to query images. The more traditional search tools include Google Images, Yahoo Images, and Ask Images, which tend to...
larrywarbasse #bit330 #image Picbrk:3: I see absolutely no use for these real time update photo sites… Just straight creepy. 11 minutes ago from web
larrywarbasse #bit330 #image Cyclops:6: Some...
Exercises
Web sites
Use Yahoo Site Explorer to investigate the structure of one of the big sites that you are working with on your term project. See if you can find something on it that you didn't...
We discuss several tools that you can use to explore connections among Web sites and, more specifically, from other Web sites to yours.
Class held on 11/05/2008. Student notes are available on...
Extras…
Google speaker have been reached and have been scheduled for the 24th of November. He was good last year and is expected to be a good experience for the class.
Other News…
OBAMA WON THE...
As you work through these examples, both in-class and out-of-class, I want you to Twitter some information. You need not tweet on any specific sites or set of sites — I simply want you to tweet...
1) Which of the following are top travel sites we examined in class
a) Expedia
b) Travelocity
c) Orbitz
d) All of the Above
e) None of the Above
2) What kind of reviews are on Yelp?
a)...
We discuss all types of geography-based search tools and resources.
Class held on 11/11/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through “At beginning of class”...
BEST CLASS INFO EVER!
New class to teach sophomores about business, what CEO's do, etc. We should not make the program better (haha j/k)
If successful, make required for all BBA students
Today...
nikgupta1: #bit330 #geog Hotspotr: Not as comprehensive as I would have expected. It didn't even have the 2 espresso royales on State and Main.
nikgupta1: #bit330 #geog Sporcle map quizzes: WHY...
By samoore (1251644873|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Yahoo! and Rhapsody Deliver Full Song Playback
Think back to just a few years ago, when Napster had just been released, and it was the only way to...
We take the test today.
Class held on 11/10/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Sit every fourth seat.
All material other than your...
As you work through these examples, both in-class and out-of-class, I want you to Twitter information about each of these tools.
#bit330 #video NameOfTool: Eval: yourReaction
Eval should be a...
rachbasa #BIT330 #video YouTube: 9 Great stuff…I use YouTube all the time. It is a great place to find funny videos!
rachbasa #BIT330 #video Megavideo: 0 wow i really disliked this site. I don't...
1) What is a Deep Video Search Engine?
a) It searches videos based on titles
b) It searches videos based on tags
c) It searches for content within the video content and audio
d) It only searches...
We discuss several different ways to search for videos.
Class held on 11/16/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through "At beginning of class" information
Go through...
Introduction
Today’s class consisted of going over different search engines that specializes in videos. The video search tool websites have significantly changed over this past year (existing...
We discuss all types of geography-based search tools and resources.
Class held on 11/12/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class...
Exercises
Find a list of search engines for Australia
Does Yahoo have a search engine home in Australia?
Look through the directory of popular content on Google Maps.
Find what's on the opposite...
Topic
Today's class covers a special type of search engine known as a metasearch engine. This is a search tool that combines the results from many different sites (Google, Bing, Yahoo!) in order to...
1. Which below describes Soovle?
a) real-time search
b) metasearch engine
c) unified interface
d) a&c
e) b&c
2. How do you define an integrated metasearch engine?
a) Gathers results from...
We discuss and evaluate metasearch engines.
Class held on 11/18/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through “At beginning of class” information
Go through...
Integrated meta-search
Your task today is to determine how well each of the integrated meta-search engines compare to the most popular search engine (Google). You should do the following:
Devise a...
By samoore (1251644873|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google Site Search
Just a few classes ago we learned about custom search engines, including embedding a Google custom search into any Web page. Today...
We discuss several different ways to find out information about people through their Web presence.
Class held on 11/17/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are...
Exercises
What we're going to do today is figure out the relative performance of different people search engines in 1) direct people search, and 2) reverse phone lookup.
Pick one person for the...
Today's class covered the different tools that can be utilized when you are searching for people. This category of search tools hasn't really settled. Just a big mass of tools out there. Some...
putBlogContentHere
We discuss social news and bookmarking sites.
Class held on 11/23/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through "At beginning of class" information
Go through metasearch...
Announcements
Exam is on December 2nd. Check out the Test page to find out information about it.
This Saturday at midnight (November 28th) is the last day to make modifications (change questions,...
Log on to (or create) your delicious account.
Searching for [carbon trading]. You'll use the search box in the upper right and change the drop down so that it searches the appropriate...
Final Test Questions
Why did "delicious" undergo a site name change?
A. To make the address more "user-friendly"
Name the 3 largest social bookmarking sites
A. Digg.com, reddit.com,...
By samoore (1251644874|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Last Industry Update Of The Semester…
Hopefully this one will prove to be interesting. You should always finish with a BANG!!! so hopefully this blog...
1. Which of the following is not a general people search tool?
A. WhoZat
B. Spock
C. Spokeo
D. iSearch
Answer: C
2. True/False - Both Whitepages and 411 Locate have the ability to reverse search by...
dianedbao social: 123people: returned the most results, could even map me to some of my friends' houses
dianedbao social: peekyou: couldn't find anything relevant about anyone i looked...
We discuss several different ways to find out information about people through their Web presence.
Class held on 11/25/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
Go through “At...
Today's class was all about how to find people on the web.
There are many different types of people search tools out there, making it easier to find:
White Pages Information
Criminal...
What we're going to do today is figure out the relative performance of different people search engines for different tasks. You're only going to send six tweets as you go through this...
Administrative
Be sure to check the lecture page, 22-Videos and music search, about the remaining dates of class. Remember that the last day of class is when your term project will be pretty much...
We discuss several different ways to find out information about people through their Web presence.
Class held on 11/19/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are...
Administrative
Be sure to check the lecture page, 22-Videos and music search, about the remaining dates of class. Remember that the last day of class is when your term project will be pretty much...
Exercises
These exercises focus on helping you identify those sites that have videos that are pertinent to your project. We will, for the most part, leave the music sites for you to explore on your...
We have a visitor from Google.
Class held on 11/24/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Grades
I have posted many grades to your grade...
Today is mainly a project day, but I noted a few things that aren't written on the site page for today.
Blogs:
Last blog due next Monday so you have time to work on projects.
Projects:
5 more class...
No scheduled activities. Just going to be helping you w/ your projects, talking about test, talking about SE analysis grades.
Class held on 11/30/2009. (student notes; possible...
We explore many of the most recently created search engines.
Class held on 11/26/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class...
Exercises
The exercises today are pretty simple. You're going to use each one of the alternative search engines to explore topics related to your project.
Be sure not to miss the following...
We discuss the history, technology, and business model of Google, Inc.
Class held on 12/07/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
At beginning of class
You should check your email for...
We discuss and evaluate metasearch engines.
Class held on 12/01/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class structure
Go through “At...
Integrated meta-search
Your task today is to determine how well each of the integrated meta-search engines compare to the two most popular search engines. You should do the following:
Devise a...
We explore a not-quite-random collection of search engines that we haven't looked at as a class. Many of these were suggested by students in this class.
Class held on 12/09/2009. (student notes;...
We have a visitor from Yahoo.
Class held on 12/03/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Next (last) class
You must be done working on...
We wrap up the semester and all that we have learned.
Class held on 12/14/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Before class
Requests
Please keep this wiki public for the next year (at...
Q1: How awesome was this class?
A. Kind of Awesome
B. Awesome
C. Really Awesome
D. Unreal
Q2: I will continue to use wikidot post BIT 330?
A. True
B. False
Q3. I am a fan of Twitter.
A....
We wrap up this semester's activities.
Class held on 12/08/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
My notes
You must already be done with...
By aegreen (1261430747|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I decided to perform a search to compare two different real time information search engines. After a superficial investigation during class, I agreed...
By tfornero (1256575622|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
How to add a blogroll to your wikidot site so it looks pretty.
This is an easy way I found to add a blogroll to my wikidot site, I can't guarentee it's...
Summary
I really enjoyed putting together my site on the Aerospace and defense industry. This is an industry that I've always been fascinated by, and this project has only increased my interest in...
By samoore (1251644914|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My Wiki
I did my wiki on the unstable, inefficient U.S. airline industry. The contents of my site are fairly basic and easy to follow, but I will...
By jadwin (1256516292|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The largest Deep-Web™ sites contain about 750 terabytes of data in total! Alexa is the 4th largest of these sites with 15,860 GBs. Compared to the...
By samoore (1251644913|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Well, as you know, my wiki dives into the fun and exciting world of alternative energy in the US. Some of the content is more fun and exciting than...
By samoore (1257182490|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1257182490|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
When you are doing the analysis for the search engine assignment, I pointed you to the slides from class...
By kfreels (1261532615|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Today I'm going to analyze and compare three RSS feed tools: Google Blog Search, Technorati, and Blogpulse. For the purposes of this experiment, I'm...
Bolded
I enjoy going to the football games
Tate Forcier for Heisman
This page contains all the announcements from the whole semester.
By samoore (1251644909|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
One awesome online resource is custom search engines. You can actually group your own list of websites and create a search engine that will search just...
By samoore (1251644915|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My Wiki discusses Apple Inc. and provides information on how an analyst show follow the company. Apple is a very interesting company; a decade ago they...
By ebowe (1260168886|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google News is a great place to start your day.
SIDENOTE: If you don't have delicious already, learn about it now.
If you are looking for top stories...
By samoore (1251644894|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction- Who Am I?
Alright, so here we go. My first ever blog. Well, actually it isn't - I kept a blog last year for BIT 300. But, being my "first...
By samoore (1251644892|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Yes, that's right: a search engine for typos.
Why would you want such a search engine? Hint: the answer relates to money. Read the article for more...
By jenmmart (1255538026|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Shoppers used to have to jump through hoops to find the best bargain on a product. They might go from store to store, or collect newspapers to find the...
By samoore (1251644913|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here is the year end summary from Ask.com of their most popular searches in 2008.
By npajank (1260811552|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Since this is my last blog entry, I would like to start by thanking Professor Scott Moore (my BIT330 professor) who managed to teach me so much about...
Search tool data (added to this page on this site, not a page on your site) (5%)
Don't wait until the last minute because other people might be trying to add data at the same time.
Later (after...
Below is a list of basic information related to each of the assignments you are to complete this semester. Click on the name of the assignment in order to be taken to a page containing more...
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Below is a list of basic information related to each of the assignments you are to complete this semester. Click on the name of the assignment in order to be taken to a page containing more...
By oish330 (1261692094|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This blog entry reviews the use of a handful of metasearch tools to find information about German autos. I decided to try the same search criteria on...
By samoore (1251644893|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This document describes several ways in which you might improve your search techniques.
Introduction
Everyone has experienced that moment where they...
By samoore (1251644912|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
I am a big fan of Google just like most college students. You can type in almost any subject in Google Search and get all the sources you...
By samoore (1251644893|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
BusinessWeek has a special report on ``The Best of the Web 2008'' this week.
Articles on important people on the Web, the effects of the Web on...
This is my personal short list of the tools that I believe are the best, most useful, and most appropriate search tools for business students. There are many other tools, and each of these tools...
By samoore (1251644912|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Since the beginning of this decade, Google's presence in our daily lives has quickly grown from a cool new website to part of our daily routine. Google...
By dbao (1261536516|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
As we are all learning in BIT330, search engines aren't only useful for finding out how many ounces are in a quart, or what the weather is outside. There...
By dbao (1261536975|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In Microsoft's continued effort to catch up with Google's various search engine tools, they have recently announced new additions to the beta version of...
By dabilen (1259533107|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Welcome To Bing
Every time any Bing user navigates to the [www.bing.com Bing] homepage they are greeted by a large, beautiful image. The image could be...
By dbao (1255320756|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Travel search engines like Travelocity and Kayak have been around for a while, and they make searching for cheap travel options significantly easier. You...
By campandr (1257128834|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Lets take a look at how search engines and social networking sites are teaming up.
Bing Looks to Compete with Google on Social Networking
Microsoft...
By maverboo (1258505761|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Bing Tries To Add More User-Friendly Features Than Google
With Bing trying to gain market-share, Microsoft is thinking increasingly hard to try to...
By afilush (1253763181|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Bing's New Idea…searching, with pictures??
Tired of reading your search results? Does not being able to read affect your ability to search effectively...
By jadwin (1261524672|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
AHHH! My Dad's Birthday is in 4 Days! In hoping to redeem myself for almost forgetting my father's 54th birthday, I quickly get on my computer and begin...
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By dbao (1256678657|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In a time where the Internet is becoming more and more inextricably linked to various aspects of our daily lives, it only makes sense that we would use...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I've begun to post blog entries; you can see them at the bottom of the start page.
I read lots of...
Specific to this class
When you are writing in response to an in-class exercise, you shouldn't merely summarize what you did. One useful type of entry would contrast two different tools,...
By samoore (1251644909|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Have you ever thought about how Google makes money? Or why they let everyone in the world use their extensive resources for free? If you are like me,...
By moonpark (1261427808|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
This morning, I was determined to complete some of my on-going projects for work, but instead I wasted two and a half hour navigating...
By keyurpat (1253501880|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hey guys!
I'm Keyur and I'm from Bridgewater, New Jersey. I also grew up in Philadelphia…so you could say I'm the East Coast person. I'm a sophomore...
By lwarbasse (1253497059|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My name is Larry Warbasse and I come from what most people refer to as "Up North," Traverse City, MI. Yes, you probably vacation there. I am supposed...
By jadwin (1253492529|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
About Me!
I'm from Charlevoix the Beautiful! Which is in Northern Michigan, and as you can see below, really is quite beautiful.
After graduating in...
By mkeagy (1253485707|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hi everyone,
I'm originally from Clarkston, MI
I plan on graduating May, 2011
I'd like to start my career in consulting or some sort of international...
By npajank (1253480010|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hey everyone. My name is Nikhil Pajankar and I am a Junior in the BBA program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I am originally from Bombay in...
By xylee (1253495363|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I'm from Singapore and am going to graduate (crosses fingers) in Spring 2010.
Ideally, I would like to work in an accounting firm (audit), or in an MNC in...
By samoore (1251644899|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
So, I've had a few days to play with both Bloglines and Google Reader and decided to compare the two services…
Function
To be honest, both services...
By dabilen (1261511557|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Bloglines
What Is It?
Bloglines is a RSS feed reader that has developed a reputation of convenience and ease of use. If you are new to RSS, Really...
By joshuaaa (1261281337|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Has a Google application finally been outdone? Is this the beginning of the end for Google's suite of programs? The answer consists of one word, and...
This page contains all my blogs from the whole semester. It is sorted in reverse order of the date that the blog entry was created.
This contains a list of all of the blogs from this semester.
This page contains all my blogs from the whole semester. It is sorted in reverse order of the date that the blog entry was created.
By dbao (1260941725|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Professor Moore:
A few highlights of what I learned from BIT330 this semester:
How to really use RSS Feeds (instead of just randomly adding to them like I...
By samoore (1251644889|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This entry at SiloBreaker shows how meta-analysis of blogging can help you interpret the news.
I find it to be rather fascinating from a technical...
This is my first blog… we'll see how it goes.
Basics
Assignment date
Due Date
Percent of Grade
9/21/2009
12/7/2009
25
Description
You are going to write ten blog posts (on your own wiki) during the semester. The topic of these posts will...
By samoore (1251644899|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I saw this blog entry today when I was reading Bloglines and thought I would pass it along here.
The article compares Google Blogs to Technorati and a...
For 2009, you should look at pages 7 onward.
By xylee (1256508886|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Launched recently on October 7, Spectives "is a site that enables you to search for visual news". So instead of lengthy wordy updates when you scroll...
By xylee (1255533894|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Do you think in squares? I do. And that's what Google Squared hopes to help us achieve. Google Squared is one of the new forays into the search business,...
By campandr (1255485049|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
putBlogContentHere
Eye Sports Search is the largest sports search engine and contains over 161,982 Sports and Recreation Sites which ii pulls for...
By samoore (1251644890|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
BusinessWeek has a short piece about blogging.
It posits that there are three types of bloggers: early adopters, professionals, and amateurs:
“First,...
For more information, you should look at the Ross Business School calendar and the official UM Fall 2008 Academic calendar.
Holiday or event
Date(s)
Ramadhan
Sept 1-30
Classes begin
Sept...
By joecox (1257353596|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Founded in 1994, CareerBuilder has become the largest online job site in the United States with over 34% market share, resulting in 34 million unique...
By jadwin (1261523839|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
CastTV is a General Web search based on video description and tags. So, if you searched "Hello" on CastTV you would only find results with "Hello" in the...
By samoore (1251644893|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I just read an informative article about cellphone usage at the NYTimes.
“In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first...
By afilush (1261508210|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The class on Change Notifications had a lot of incredibly interesting sites that I used during my project and also in my job search. This blog will...
By joshuaaa (1261281371|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Email alerts? Check. Page monitors? Check. Feed creation? Check. Now how do I uncheck???
Change Notifications
Alright, so they aren't all bad, and in...
By kfreels (1261532876|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here's how I used the change notification tools to help me with my project on the fast food industry.
Email Alerts:
Using the Google Alerts tool, I set...
By samoore (1251644890|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This article, by the vice president of Yahoo mail, provides some useful hints on choosing a password.
I'm guessing this has to do with a certain Yahoo...
By samoore (1251644911|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I ran across the article below using Joongel. It's not very technology-related, but I found it interesting. It's from TheStreet.com. Take a look!
'12...
By samoore (1251644909|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
When I have no idea how to work a website or search engine such as CiteULike, I find it easiest just to experiment and see what happens. After briefly...
This contains lots of information from last year's class. I want to make it as easy as possible for you to do well in this class while also learning from last year's students.
Basic...
This contains lots of information from last year's class. I want to make it as easy as possible for you to do well in this class while also learning from last year's students.
Basic...
Sign up for one of these.
Class
Notes
Questions
Web search
bryblum
aegreen
Wiki instruction day
Search techniques 1
Brian H.
Jennifer Stanczak
Search techniques 2
Kevin S.
Web...
By jadwin (1261523414|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Scrolling through my Google Reader today I came across an interesting article from TechCrunch called "Real-Time Social Identity Platform Cliqset Launches...
By mkeagy (1260943175|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
To view this blog on my actual site, with working links to pages referenced, click here
Welcome to my site!
As the title says, the purpose of this site...
Please change this page according to your needs
Information retrieval has traditionally been conceived of in terms of precision and recall. The results of a search engine query are said to have high precision if a high percentage of the...
Information retrieval has traditionally been conceived of in terms of precision and recall. The results of a search engine query are said to have high precision if a high percentage of the...
This is basic information about the class.
Catalog #: BIT 330
Name: Web-based Information Resources
Professor: Scott Moore (samoore)
Target: Undergraduates, especially BBAs
School: Ross School of...
This is basic information about the class.
Catalog #: BIT 330
Name: Web-based Information Resources
Professor: Scott Moore (samoore)
Target: Undergraduates, especially BBAs
School: Ross School of...
Here are some smart-aleck answers to questions that both I and the student wished hadn't ever been asked. These are all actual questions from actual students.
Will this be on the test?
Yes —...
Here are some smart-aleck answers to questions that both I and the student wished hadn't ever been asked. These are all actual questions from actual students.
Will this be on the test?
Yes —...
The following are the goals that I have for students in the course:
Search the Web efficiently and effectively using a variety of search engines
Usefully compare and contrast the features of Web...
The following are the goals that I have for students in the course:
Search the Web efficiently and effectively using a variety of search engines
Usefully compare and contrast the features of Web...
By samoore (1261673620|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1261675082|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here are some instructions if you have questions about any grades from this semester.
FYI, the "Total...
Honor code
Personal integrity and professionalism are fundamental values of the Ross Business School community. This course will be conducted in strict conformity with the Academic Honor Code. The...
Honor code
Personal integrity and professionalism are fundamental values of the Ross Business School community. This course will be conducted in strict conformity with the Academic Honor Code. The...
Books
We are not using any books in this class.
Articles
If there are articles that you are supposed to read, I will either hand them out or provide you with a link so that you can access it...
We are not using any books in this class. If there are articles that you are supposed to read, I will either hand them out or provide you with a link so that you can access it online.
By samoore (1253310290|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1253310290|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The blog template file is, in one way, just like any other file. So you create it like any other file...
January 28, 2009 — These notes are for an Instructional Development Brown Bag presentation that I made on January 28, 2009 for the University of Michigan's CRLT:
Basics
Title
Engaging Students...
By Wdchen (1261280785|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
A new and improved way to conduct searches!
Overview
Creating a Custom Google Search Engine is very simple and can save you a lot of time in the long...
By jadwin (1261523614|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In class we learned that Google supposedly has the best custom search engine. But how far behind are the rest? To find out I looked at the three other...
By samoore (1251644909|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The idea of having a custom search engine embedded into my wiki site sounded amazing. It would make it easy for viewers of my site wanting to learn...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In today's blog I will discuss Google Custom Search Engines and how they can be used for my term project or other personal use.
Google Custom Search...
By JEgerer (1261516468|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
How about some belated love (and hate) for custom search engines. Below is my take on the Google Custom Search Engine and its uses.
The Good
Below is a...
By Wdchen (1257619942|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Cyclops- Stock Photograph Search Engine
Overview
To start, the definition of a "Stock Photograph" is a photograph that can be licensed for specific...
By Wdchen (1261281057|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Cyclops- A stock photograph search tool
Overview
To start, the definition of a "Stock Photograph" is a photograph that can be licensed for specific...
my del.icio.us
By oish330 (1261692339|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Delicious and Diigo are both online bookmarking utilities that we briefly discussed in class 21 on Social Sites. These sites allow users to create a...
By samoore (1251644907|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In this blog, I am going to compare the two most popular social news sites, Digg and Reddit. For the past few years, I have used Digg and I have grown...
By samoore (1251644908|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The number of social news sites has grown dramatically during the past few years - some succeed while most fail. Digg and Slashdot are two of the ones...
By Wdchen (1261422512|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Comparison of two social news sites: Digg and StumbleUpon
There are many different types of social sites available on the web. If you want to find/share...
By mike_danhof (1261366734|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
There are many social sites out there, with the biggest being (IMHO) Digg and Reddit. The main purpose of these sites is to offer a place for people...
By JEgerer (1261516587|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Well I could cap off our social site class with a comparison of all the tools we explored.. but one of them was just too cool not to take center stage....
By samoore (1251644906|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google Can't Pick Up Everything
I was surprised to learn that if you can't find something on Google, that it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There is...
By mkeagy (1257302715|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The Search Deal
Only hours after Microsoft annouced Bing's partnership with Twitter and Facebook, Google fired back and announced they would begin...
By aegreen (1261430673|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This blog is dedicated to discussing the deep web and its search tools, as well as going in-depth about my favorite, Scirus, and how it can be useful...
By samoore (1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
…and watch this video. It's only 5 minutes long but it has a great message.
By dbao (1261537102|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
summit in Copenhagen gets underway on Monday. While search-engines and climate changes aren't the most related topics in my mind, a new announcement was...
Newer Web sites
Politico
Real Clear Politics: “list of the day's major op-eds as well as an in-depth, right-leaning commentary section”
Talking Points Memo: “a left-leaning...
By samoore (1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
To make it easier to look around the Web and see what's going on with this election (and all the...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
After learning about custom search engines, I thought I would try out a popular tool called RollYO. Basically, it allows its users to create any search...
<div id="cse" style="width: 100%;">Loading</div>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script...
By afilush (1261507722|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
.com is an amazing site that has helped me immensely with my project. Although I have used Delicious quite extensively in the past, I have not used it...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
So, I've been using the various image search engines we explored in BIT 330 over the last few days and thought that I would create a table to compare a...
This page contains all the announcements from the whole semester.
This contains a list of all of the exercises from this semester.
This page contains all the exercises from the whole semester.
By nikgupta (1261336344|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I thought I would make an entry on my exploration of a term project topic. Hopefully, I can apply some of the search tools & techniques we learned...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This week I will be having extended office hours so that you can meet with me about your project. I have...
This is the sign-up page for extra office hours for Wed Sept 24 and Thurs Sept 25. Sign up for a 15 minute block.
Wed
3pm
3:15pm
3:30pm
3:45pm
4pm
4:15pm
Dan...
By samoore (1251644901|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Alright, here it is - Facebook Lexicon.
Facebook Lexicon counts occurrences of words and phrases on Walls over time.
It is awesome. You can even...
By vivanov (1255490079|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google has been working on a new addition to its already innovative line of services. The new addition is called Google Wave which will revolutionize...
October 16, 2008 — These notes are for an Instructional Development Brown Bag presentation that I made on this date at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan entitled...
By bavidar (1260895016|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Few Things to Point Out
Overall Site and Tabs
I tried to create a very simple yet sleek site as to be informative but not too crazy with its design. I...
By tfornero (1260893989|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Dear Dr. Scott A Moore,
I am so happy that you have decided to peruse my website, I've been told this blog post is in place of me standing over your...
By campandr (1260892794|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I have spent a long time researching and working on things for this wiki so I am excited about you seeing it. The first things that I would like you to...
By ranfan (1260901337|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Greetings Professor! I hope you're actually reading through my site and not just reading this note because I worked super hard on it! I'll try to brag as...
By aegreen (1260915433|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hi Professor, I know that you will thoroughly enjoy looking through my site, but there are some things in particular that I want to point out to you...
By oish330 (1260906318|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Note: You can also find this blog on my site here
This is my final blog for the semester talking about my project. It was a long journey to completion...
By joshuaaa (1260911887|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
(Tap tap) Yup, it's me. Here are a few things I'd like you to consider while grading my project.
Project Summary
The parcel delivery industry has...
By Wdchen (1260924615|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Things to Notice!!
To Professor Moore:
Things to Notice!!
Throughout this term project, I have focused on the topic of crime and violence in the US....
By joecox (1260944050|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The wiki I created was about entrepreneurship. I wanted to create it as a tool and resource for current and potential entrepreneurs to find information...
By maverboo (1260902860|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
This is a blog for you Professor Moore to make sure that you understand the areas of my project that I worked extremely hard on and the...
By samoore (1251644896|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This page at Presentation Zen provides a very good explanation of the financial crisis. The speaker explains CDOs and how they have played an integral...
By kfreels (1261533295|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
One important aspect of doing industry research is to understand the financials of the industry and individual firms. Two web-based tools, Wikinvest and...
By Wdchen (1261423336|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Useful tools to help you find public information!
Have YOU ever done anything that you wish you hadn't? Do you have something that you don't want people...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
So, we've had our first meeting.
After you have signed up for the class, you should go to this page —-...
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By joshuaaa (1254321935|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Surfity's innovative layout surrounds you with results.
Float Through Your Results with Surfity
Surfity, a new search engine for images, video, and...
By samoore (1253804198|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1254923656|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I have used Tinker (a tool recently put into beta) to create a widget that I have embedded in the...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Three quick notices for Wednesday's class:
If you have a pair of small headphones, please bring them to...
The following is the course description as it appears in the University's course catalog:
This courses focuses on a student's need (both while as a student and in the future while working in...
The following is the course description as it appears in the University's course catalog:
This courses focuses on a student's need (both while as a student and in the future while working in...
By dabilen (1259528951|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In early November a meeting was held in Europe between Microsoft and various large Media consortiums. The meeting took place soon after Rob Murdoch, CEO...
feed cloud by fwicki
By samoore (1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I will be posting your course grades sometime late Thursday. I have finished recording your assignment...
By aegreen (1261430613|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
During my exploration of the geography-based sites provided in class, I saw some that I already use and love while discovering many that I've never seen...
By kfreels (1261533114|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I love the internet. There's so many things you can do and learn from it. The best part is, I probably know 1% of everything that's out there. I'm sure...
By JEgerer (1261516526|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
After finishing a day of play in BIT330 with Geo-based search tools I think I'll only feel I've accomplished something if I share my take on a few...
By imonty (1257193253|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The future of the search industry is “hands-free.” Bing 411 allows people search on their mobile phone without typing at inconvenient times when they...
By samoore (1251644889|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Your wireless network may be suffering from bandwidth envy after it hears about this.
Maybe you haven't even bought an 802.11n WiFi router yet. Even if...
General resources
Blogs: Official Google Blog, Google Blogoscoped, Google Operating System, Googling Google, Ga Ga Gooogle
Search resources: Official Google Cheat Sheet, Unofficial Google...
By kfreels (1253662282|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Someone had their thinking cap on over at Google.
On September 16th, 2009, Google announced in a Google Official Blog post that it had acquired...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
As a self proclaimed 'webmaster,' Google Analytics is one of my favorite tools. The depth of information that you can collect about your users using...
By samoore (1251644888|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This article compares Google at age 10 with Microsoft at the same age.
The stats that are most directly applicable to this class are worldwide searches...
By ebowe (1259971881|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google continues to add new innovative start-ups to their roster with their recent acquisition of Appjet, a San Fransisco based company that created a new...
By afilush (1261507984|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google may be feeling the heat from Bing's new Homepage, because on the 25th they launched a new experiment for their homepage. They added color to...
By aegreen (1253420950|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I'm so excited about this new release that I just can't contain myself - but first, let me tell you about my relationship with Google Chrome.
My History...
By joshuaaa (1261281441|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
When the words "Google" and "Custom" are combined to describe a single tool, you would think it has to be pretty close to the perfect research tool. It...
By samoore (1251644893|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Over the last few years, Google's distance ahead of everyone else in the search field continued to grow. Nevertheless, I have stuck with using Yahoo...
By keyurpat (1255488655|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I’m sure many of you have heard about Google Docs, but are you really that familiar with it? Well, I definitely wasn’t, but about a year ago, I...
By imonty (1256710934|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This blog entry is about Google’s celebration of Google Earth heroes, ordinary people who are using the search tool to complete extraordinary,...
By dbao (1261536848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google is constantly tweaking and updating itself to continually improve the search experience for users. I recently discovered that Google plans to...
By samoore (1259349163|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This Blog discusses one of Google's new products, Flu Trends, which tracks the flu epidemic around the world. I became interested in this tool because I...
By samoore (1251644892|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
According to this article Search Engine Land, “Google has launched a new labs project named In Quotes. In Quotes allows you to compare quotes between...
By ranfan (1253834189|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Bing, Microsoft's relatively new search engine released a very nifty feature on their image search today, but Google Image search has also had a few...
By lwarbasse (1258934643|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
To add to their ever expanding arsenal of features and tools, Google introduced a new search feature called Google Image Swirl. A cool tool, however,...
By mike_danhof (1261366528|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I found this blog post from the Official Google Blog from my Google Reader, and it seemed like the perfect way to transition from my first page to...
By samoore (1252594552|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
As described by Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb, Google recently launched the Internet Stat Center. This is also discussed by the Google Operating System...
By dabilen (1261510701|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google News Archive: the new age of looking at the old age
Over the past 2 years our favorite online e-ventor has been putting a significant amount of...
By mike_danhof (1261366865|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In an interesting series of events, Google may be soon running into problems for its extremely popular and widely-used News search.
Google is Wrong,...
By ebowe (1260168671|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
If you don't have delicious, learn about it now.
If you are looking for top stories fast, Google News can be a good place to start. There are many news...
By samoore (1251644900|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The Idea Behind News Search
Are you tired of having to watch the local news every night to find out whats happening in the world? Do you want to be able...
By ranfan (1261369713|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google announced on December 4th, extending their personalized search system.
This is something that first came out in 2005, and unfortunately, I had no...
By samoore (1251644897|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I have used RSS feeds extensively in the last year or so since I started my own blog. The value of RSS feeds to track a subject extensively day in and...
By Wdchen (1258565882|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Newly implemented Google SafeSearch
Purpose
How often do teenage parents suspect their children to be watching explicit material? How many times have...
By jkimsal (1256538470|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This blog entry discusses the three big names in web search engines – Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing – and how their market share is fluctuating...
By samoore (1251644895|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
How Useful is Google Sets?
So, as a second part of the "Search Techniques and Strategies" portion of BIT 330, we took searching techniques to another...
By Wdchen (1261280312|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Comparison between Google Fast Flip and Google Timeline
Introduction
Yesterday was my first exposure to many of the various news search services...
By nikgupta (1254301649|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google has come out with an innovative news reader called FastFlip that enables users to see actual image previews of articles instead of the standard...
By robo24wolverine (1258000730|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Oh, Google…yet again you amaze us.
What's Happening?
Google announced on 11/10/09 at 08:00am (get the number play? 11, 10, 9, 8…) that they...
By npajank (1254261773|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hey everyone! So Google has come out with this new add-on feature for Firefox and Internet Explorer called Google Sidewiki. This feature can be...
By mike_danhof (1257092802|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google and Bing get together with Twitter.
This seems to be what Google wants, and who can really blame them? Anyway, on to the real content of the...
This is a test.
When you look at the code for this page and copy all of it to your page, in the following code change "www.howcanifindit.com/google-voice" to the name of the page that you are going...
By ranfan (1261369865|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In this blog, I will compare popular Google Image tool to a less known/used image search tool CompFight.
Some Background Info
Google Image Search
We are...
By jadwin (1254871063|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Are you currently on the waitlist for Google Wave? Well if you're not, hopefully this will help you decide whether or not you want to be.
Ride the Wave -...
By dbao (1261536762|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
After watching the video (below) at the beginning of the year, I've been extremely interested in Google Wave. I mean it makes sense - email can often be a...
By samoore (1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here's information about the grades for this status report.
Range: 50 — 100
Median: 77.5
Average:...
By samoore (1252520167|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I was real happy with how the first day went. I'm a n00b when it comes to twittering, but I've wanted to try it out, see what it does. And I think we're...
By samoore (1251644890|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Python is my favorite programming language.
I've previously taught a class in it. I contributed to an open source textbook about it. I use it for as...
By rolay117 (1260934444|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This is my blog analyzing the development of my wikidot site.
Introduction
For our BIT330 project we were required to choose a topic/industry, and...
By samoore (1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
When gathering information to put together your test, I created the following pages:
All student...
By samoore (1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I have read a bunch of blogs about your custom search engines, and have had the opportunity to look at...
By keyurpat (1255664050|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google has to be concerned that in merely several months, Bing has already taken over approximately 10% of the market share. The unique way that Bing...
By samoore (1253548335|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hope this ends up helping!
By samoore (1255392628|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
If you want to create a favicon for your wiki, you can use this web site to do so.
Draw the favicon.
Save it to your desktop.
Use a graphics program to...
If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor.
To create a link to a new page, use syntax: [[[new page name]]] or...
By samoore (1251644895|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
How To Embed Blogroll Using RPC URL
[[iframe http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=[USERNAME]&target=_top scrolling="yes"...
By samoore (1251644889|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This is a fantastic article about habits you can get it (and software you can use) to help you remember things.
The “habits” part of the article is...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In this announcement I address questions I have gotten from a few students related to how they should...
These instructions are for Bloglines users only. The following describes how to share your list of RSS feeds (otherwise known as a blogroll).
Go to your Bloglines account.
Get it so that your...
By samoore (1251644888|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
UIUC is going to build a huge computer by 2011.
From Massive $208 million petascale computer gets green light:
Blue Waters is expected to deliver...
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By afilush (1253685547|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Internet Explorer 8 has some issues with this wiki.
Quick Background (You can skip this if you want to just read the issues)
Sometime in high school I...
By JEgerer (1260937088|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
A few words about my project on Internet Gambling Banking Regulation.
Analyst Tutorial
Search Tool Analysis -Tool Specific
Research Index Analysis -...
By kfreels (1261532989|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In this blog post, I will compare the results of Google Images to Exalead in my quest to find great pictures for my fast food wiki. Both Google Images...
By samoore (1251644911|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
Since I am attempting to show the problem with oil consumption, pictures are necessary for my project. There are many numbers out there,...
By Wdchen (1261423005|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Finding images on Google News and Yahoo News
Outline
Introduction
Description of Project
Images from Google News
Images from Yahoo...
By bavidar (1253478683|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
New Search Engine
A new search engine, called ImHalal.com was just released in order to protect the religious views of Muslims. ImHalal filters its...
Put questions here related to the industry blogs that you all wrote.
Which of the following websites are providing free Wi-Fi on airplanes and/or in airports this holiday seasons?
Google,...
The following is a list of industry sectors that is basically taken straight from a financial database. More importantly, this industry breakdown is essentially how finance/investment companies...
By mike_danhof (1257977667|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Microsoft joins forces with Wolfram Alpha and Bing grows.
Today, Microsoft announced that its long-rumored deal with Wolfram Alpha will actually be...
This is the industry update from Lesley
It seems a company called Omniture launched a new search tool which based search results on pages the users most often browsed. I am not sure if it is proper...
This page contains all the industry updates from the whole semester.
On this page you should sign up for exactly one update. Put your user name in the appropriate column in the appropriate row. No two students can take the same cell, but more than one student can do...
By samoore (1251644890|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I got a quick question from Bryan today in class about my presentation. I thought I'd give a bit more detailed answer here.
I use iStockPhoto as the...
This test will be multiple choice, true/false, and short answer. If you come to class, complete the exercises, and read the industry updates, then you should do okay on the exam. Studying the...
College Prowler
UM
There are links to comments in the middle of this page: most recent and most popular
College Confidential
UM
Forum (very active)
Ross-specific comments
College...
Office location
My office is R5410. To get to my office, take the elevator to the fifth floor of the Ross building. When you get off the elevator, turn right. My office is the first one on the left...
By moonpark (1261427830|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
The internet has grown significantly over the few years with over 182 million websites. As a result, search engines were developed to...
By samoore (1251644914|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My wiki is on the topic of Internet Infrastructure. I thought that it would be an interesting topic for this class because in BIT330 we obviously dealt...
By samoore (1251644887|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I knew traffic on the Internet was growing fairly quickly, but I had no idea it was to this extent.
I just came across this quote at this link from...
By samoore (1251644905|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
Interviews are right around the corner and there are fewer and fewer jobs to be had! For this reason, I have decided to stray from my usual...
By aegreen (1253410024|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hi everyone, my name is Adrienne Green and here is some stuff about me…
I am from Bay City, MI.
I will graduate with my BBA after this...
By afilush (1253497615|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hello Bit330!
I am from Grand Rapids, MI, or more specifically the suburb of Grandville. While this might sound normal, I actually lived on the last...
By campandr (1253498100|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hey everyone! How are you doing!?!?
I am from Lansing, MI
I will be graduating in Spring 2010
I would like to be a financial analyst for a Fortune 500...
By Wdchen (1253153929|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hi Guys! How's it going?
My hometown is Rochester Hills, MI
I'm planning on graduating in the Winter of 2011 with a concentration in corporate finance....
By dabilen (1253544941|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here is a quick overview of myself…
Where you are from - I was born in Albany, NY but now live in Troy, MI
When you're supposed to graduate -...
By dbao (1253156180|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hello, fellow BIT330 classmates! I am from Marquette, MI (in the Upper Peninsula.) I am supposed to graduate in May 2011 from Ross and with a dual degree...
By ebowe (1253724892|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My name is Elijah Bowe.
I am from Ann Arbor, MI and have many interests.
I look forward to taking this class mainly, to increase my knowledge of web...
By ercaki (1253242390|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hi,
My name is Erica Kim and I am from Farmington Hills, MI. I am supposed to graduate in the Winter of 2011. I have no idea what I want to with my life...
By imonty (1253675893|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My name is Isaiah Montgomery and I'm from Detroit, MI.
I went to the University of Detroit Jesuit High School, which I see as the best high school in the...
By jenmmart (1253467428|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hi Everyone!
I'm from Livonia, MI
I am graduating May, 2010
I hope to get a job in services marketing but might go back to my summer internship at a...
By jesseip (1253252840|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hi everyone. I am Jesse and I am from Hong Kong. I am supposed to graduate in May 2011. My short term goal is to get a consulting intern while my long...
By JEgerer (1253472722|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hello hello!
Where you are from
I'm from Hemlock, outside of Saginaw, MI at the moment. And of course Ann Arbor at the moment, and I spend a about a...
By joecox (1253548335|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I am from Lapeer, MI. And here's more stuff.
I will be graduating in April, 2010
From there, I am planning to start my career in corporate finance for a...
By jkimsal (1253493787|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In case you didn't know…
I am from the Hills - Farmington Hills, Michigan.
I'm supposed to graduate this spring, 2010.
I'm hoping to pursue a...
In case you didn't know…
I am from the Hills - Farmington Hills, Michigan.
I'm supposed to graduate this spring, 2010.
I'm hoping to pursue a career in accounting, leaning towards tax (don't...
By joshuaaa (1253132345|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hello everybody, I am from Hickory Corners, MI, just east of Kalamazoo. I am planning on graduating in 2012. I hope to get some sort of job in the...
By kfreels (1253299870|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hello, I'm Kristen Freels.
I am from Rochester Hills, MI
I'm going to "graduate" in May of 2010, however, I won't be taking classes next semester...
By bavidar (1253120005|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Where you are from: Chicago, IL
When you're supposed to graduate: 2011
What type of job you hope to get (or already have lined up): Proprietary Trader,...
By maverboo (1253497017|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hometown: Boca Raton, Florida
Graduate: 2011
Job: Consulting
I took this class because I wanted to become extremely knowledgeable about using the...
By mike_danhof (1253475597|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Blackberry Storm > iPhone
Hi everyone, and welcome to my site. My name is Mike, and I'm a senior BBA student here at the University of Michigan,...
By moonpark (1253413085|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My Introduction
My name is Ray Park, and I am currently a BBA senior attending Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. I will be...
By nikgupta (1253490100|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I'm from West Bloomfield, Michigan.
I'm supposed to graduate in April 2011.
I hope to work in the sports industry in some capacity. That could be as...
By oish330 (1253404647|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hello, I'm Omer, and here's some information about me.
Where you are from: Ann Arbor via Montreal, Quebec & Halifax, Nova Scotia
When you're...
By rachbasa (1253735305|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here is some information on me.
I am originally from Edinburg, Texas
I will be graduating in April/May of 2010!!! Just a few months away!
After I...
By ranfan330 (1253407450|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hello everyone!
I am originally from Beijing, China. Went abroad with my parents when I was eight - lived in Europe for a couple years and currently...
By rolay117 (1253545652|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Click-here to learn more about me
My name is Robert Lay and I am from Flint, Michigan. I am scheduled to graduate in April of 2010 pending the passing...
By robo24wolverine (1253120175|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I am from Manati, Puerto Rico.
I am supposed to graduate by 2012 as a 5th year senior with a dual BBA and Informatics degree.
I hope to get a...
By tfornero (1253485373|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Hello one and all!
West Bloomfield, MI
Graduating May 2010
Hoping to get a job in public accounting
Hopefully after this class I will be able to use...
1. Where you are from: Ann Arbor, MI
2. When you're supposed to graduate: I am currently a Senior
3. What type of job you hope to get (or already have lined up): Consulting
4. What you hope to get...
By samoore (1251644913|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My last blog entry of BIT330? My last interaction with Wikidot, ever? (I know, Professor Moore is cringing when he hears that. Don't worry, I promise to...
By tfornero (1258577322|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Is Bing stealing search share from the Behemoth that is Google, or just killing its own "partner" yahoo?
#'s Don't Lie
It seems like everyone is...
By samoore (1251644889|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This interview with Sir Ken Robinson is a really a fantastically thought-provoking piece on creativity and education.
Some points that he makes:
The...
By samoore (1251644890|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
An informative and interesting article on the changing search habits of Americans from InfoWorld.
The source of the information in this article is...
By dbao (1261536432|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The main page of Jamesoo proudly advertises that you will "find what you'll never expect." I was a little unsure of whether or not that would be a good...
By jkimsal (1255290568|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In the web search industry, a growing niche seems to be the job search engine. How this affects the industry, and how the industry has been adapting to...
Who can join?
Anyone can become a member of this site, but it is being used primarily for undergraduate business students in BIT330 at the Ross School of Business during the Fall 2009 semester. I...
By robo24wolverine (1261338539|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Joongel is my newest fascination on the Internet. Seriously, who came up with the idea to make the top 10 sites for [insert whatever category]...
By kfreels (1258857418|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
An interesting article posted last week on AltSearchEngines discusses the "love triangle" between Kosmix, Google, and the Deep Web. At the SDForum...
By JEgerer (1261516321|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
After cranking out the exercises in class today it became clear that at least for our term projects purposes Newssift is the most valuable tool.
News...
By samoore (1251644909|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
We covered a lot of different search sites in class this past week, and I found a bunch that I really liked. My favorite is Lexxe. Lexxe is new to the...
By samoore (1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here are the links to all of the final projects.
Investment Banking Industry by bryblum
Alternative...
By JEgerer (1261516389|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Well its about time to shift gears to project mode. This entry will be about how I'm using the tools we've learned about to automate my search for...
By samoore (1251644891|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Okay, this isn't exactly a love letter, but David Pogue, technology writer for the NY Times, has written an article that basically describes his...
By samoore (1253035944|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This video of a Mathemagician is so cool (for us geeky types). Lots of fun. Great party trick! ;)
By joshuaaa (1261282119|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Do metasearch engines produce better results than regular search engines? In theory, they are supposed to. By combining the results from multiple...
By mkeagy (1257131767|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Kayak at a Glance
Kayak.com is a nifty search engine for finding the cheapest prices on flights, hotels, rental cars, cruises, etc. Unlike other common...
By JEgerer (1261516658|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Metasearch is an interesting topic because it is an area that offers such rewards in theory — but we haven't really realized the superior performance...
By bavidar (1253122877|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This week Microsoft and Google released new search products that allow users to visually see what they are searching for. Microsoft Bing's introduced...
By samoore (1251644896|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Get paid to do search! Sign up at SearchPerks. All you need to do is install the toolbar, open up Internet Explorer (Ver 6+), and visit Microsoft Live...
By joecox (1257807041|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
Why has Microsoft had such a hard time in the search market? In the past, they have consistently proven themselves as an elite company that...
By rolay117 (1259002911|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Welcome to my blog about the Microsoft-Yahoo! search engine deal that took place earlier this year.
Introduction
In a recent article written in...
By dbao (1261536697|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
As you may have noticed in my blogs and project analysis, a huge part of why I use the Internet is to help in one of my FAVORITE pastimes - shopping. A...
By lwarbasse (1259981345|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
All of the pianos, guitars, and violins out there better watch out - there is a new instrument in town. Probably not something anyone would expect...
By samoore (1251644914|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My Goal for the Wiki
The main purpose of my wiki was to inform my reader of why the mortgage industry is so relevant and how they can stay up to date...
By samoore (1251644915|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The topic of my wiki site is the music recording industry. I chose this industry to study and take a closer look at because new things are always...
By samoore (1251644914|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Summary
I really enjoyed putting together my site on the Aerospace and defense industry. This is an industry that I've always been fascinated by, and...
By afilush (1261508283|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This class is the second time I have been exposed to and used a web based aggregator. I chose Google Reader to combine my RSS feeds, as I value the...
By samoore (1251644897|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The purpose of news search tools is slightly different than the purpose of normal search engines. In a typical web search the user is probably looking...
By samoore (1251644900|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
How to Get the Most out of a Search for News
I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered exactly how little I actually knew about searching for news on...
By samoore (1251644903|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Since Social Software is such a broad category and so many people with no authority write blogs about it, it is very hard to find credible sites of...
By jadwin (1261524024|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This blog will answer this question by comparing the top standard travel search tools —Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz, to the new entrant, Kayak.
Do...
By samoore (1251644913|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
“ ‘Other Search Sites’? You’ve got to be kidding me! There are more search sites than the hundreds we’ve already gone over? It...
By moonpark (1254715879|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Google launches a user friendly website translator
Google hypes up its translator gadget for new websites
On September 30 (International Translation...
By aegreen (1253477061|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
There is a new search engine that you can use to search for songs, albums, and artist biographies called noiset. When I first read about Noiset, I was...
This page contains all the student notes from the whole semester.
Put your username in one of the following...
This contains a list of all of the notes pages created this semester.
This page contains all the student notes from the whole semester.
By rachbasa (1254281203|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Today I discovered there is another search engine trying to compete with the big boy search engines: Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask. This relatively new...
By ranfan (1261369751|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
NowGoogle is a Multiple Search Engine.
First, as far as I can tell, this is NOT a Google Product. Its name doesn't actually even make that much sense...
<div id="cse-search-results"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var googleSearchIframeName = "cse-search-results";
var googleSearchFormName =...
<div id="cse" style="width: 100%;">Loading</div>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script...
<div id="cse" style="width: 100%;">Loading</div>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script...
<h4>Nutrition & Fitness Journals Search Engine</h4>
<form action="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~samoore/teach/bit330f09/nutrition-results.html"...
<div id="cse-search-form" style="width: 100%;">Loading</div>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script...
<form action="http://www.google.com/cse" id="cse-search-box">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="002115192500159889896:th-nm2zaimy" />...
By samoore (1251644911|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
A Google Custom Search Engine would be very useful for my project on oil consumption. New data comes out on a monthly basis or even more...
By samoore (1251644915|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
My wiki site focuses on the oil situation in the U.S. and how it relates to the world. My goal was to provide statistical information that...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Just found this amazing post on Mashable that features 100+ web applications that can help you organize every element of your life (literally). Very...
By oish330 (1257725293|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
We have all had to deal with citations throughout our college and professional careers, so we know how time consuming and annoying they can be. The most...
Basics
Assignment date
Due Date
Percent of Grade
9/16/2009
12/9/2009
15
Description
The participation grade you receive in this class will be based on three different types of activities:...
By samoore (1261670889|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1261670889|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Much of what we did in this course revolved around work that we did during class time. This is where we...
By samoore (1251644889|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
A Yahoo executive has stated “people…don't want to search.”
This article at internetnets.com gives some insights into how Yahoo thinks about the...
By moonpark (1261427886|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
With the world becoming ever more complex, it has become difficult to keep track of contact information. For me, I cannot ever remember...
By oish330 (1261692406|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
After our class on People Search, I thought it would be interesting to see what I could dig up about myself using a handful of the tools we talked...
By samoore (1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
These are the results of our people search exercise.
The results are shown as "A/B" where "A" is the...
By moonpark (1261427572|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This blog deals with two different image search tools and their comparisons: Google Images and Pixolu
Introduction: What is image search?
With the...
Possible topics
Introduction day
Web Search
A short and easy search engine tutorial (new)
The browser search war winners (new)
Search without the search engine (new)
Flash is no longer the search...
Site
Your rating (separate with commas)
Pod-o-matic
1,1,1,3,2,4
VideoSurf
6,2,5,5,1,3
Podcast Directory
0,1,1,2,0,4
Podcast...
Basic news
Google News (Politics)
SiloBreaker
Wall Street Journal (Politics)
NY Times (Politics)
BBC
Left wing stuff
Daily Kos
Democratic Underground
American Leftist
Right wing stuff
Right...
By samoore (1251644890|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
At Search Engine Land there is a nice article about politics and paid search keywords.
It references some interesting data and a couple of published...
By samoore (1251644900|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I recently saw when browsing my RSS reader, an article about "Keating Economics" being one of the top terms on Google the day the Obama campaign...
By samoore (1251644909|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My Search for Unique Images
Like most people, when I first sought to add images to my Wiki I looked through Google Images. If Google didn't have what I...
By JEgerer (1258339220|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Print media lashes out at the figure head, Google, of its arch enemy, the internet, in an effort to protect content.
Print vs. Google
Heated...
Overview
You are going to do one report on a specific topic. (You will find related pages at wikis and the list of student wikis.) You should think about the report in the following context:...
By samoore (1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
There's nothing new in this announcement — I'm just clarifying some instructions. Again, there's...
By samoore (1261671010|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1262099018|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I will be posting your course grades sometime late Thursday. I have finished recording your assignment...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
If you are a UM student, you should be able to upload images onto your personal IFS space and then make...
This page contains all the blogs from the whole semester.
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I got a question in class today about links to the possible test questions.
I had already set up a link...
This contains a list of all of the questions pages created this semester.
This page contains all the student questions from the whole semester.
By JEgerer (1261516264|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Just finished Monday's exercises on Search Techniques…and wouldn't you know it… I learned something.
The following are some quick tips to improve...
By samoore (1251644903|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The Wired Blog Network has an article about the rising speed of supercomputers. What it describes is truly amazing. It also alludes to the controversy...
By joshuaaa (1261281408|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Real time has become prime time. In today's fast paced world, we need information, and we need it now. Tools like Twitter (and the mass of "twools"...
By tfornero (1256530017|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
How important is the battle for real-time search dominance for the web-search industry?
What's the story?
This past Saturday Miguel Heft, of the NYT,...
By jkimsal (1255528972|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here are the results of our classes ratings of different real-time search engines. Enjoy!
Real-time Search
Average...
++++ by yourActual name ([[*user yourUserName]] in BIT330, Fall 2008)
++ Questions and queries
+++ Web search engines
DescribeYourQuestion
ListYourQueries.
+++ Blog search...
By samoore (1251644901|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
(Tyler wrote this last year, but it's still useful.)
Wikidot actually makes resizing your images pretty easy. You can read their description of how to...
By samoore (1251644894|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Background
Rosacea is a commonly misunderstood disease, with many symptoms very similar to acne. It is distinguished by consistent redness of the cheeks...
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background-color: #8a8a8a;
font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 0.75em;
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By oish330 (1261692629|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
One of my biggest complaints with RSS aggregators on the web (Google, Bloglines) is their interfaces. Although both of the aforementioned readers are...
By samoore (1251644898|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I will introduce the idea behind RSS feeds and why it should matter to you.
RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are basically a tool used to track frequently update...
By samoore (1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I noticed several things about RSS feeds and the difference for those who handle this part better than...
By ranfan (1261369798|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
RSS aggregation allow users to "subscribe" to a website and have updates of that site's info delivered to a single account, it is a great tool for easy...
by Scott Moore (samoore in BIT330, Fall 2009)
Summary data
The following tables contains the precision of the top 10 results returned on queries and the number of overlap documents shared between...
This is due by Sunday, October 4, at 5pm (so that I can summarize the information for next class). This looks like a ton of work but it's actually not that bad (it's exactly the same tasks as the...
When you add your values to this table, please look at how I entered my row. Notice that the numbers are between 0 and 100 — they are not values between 0.0 and 1.0. Further, notice how I entered...
By samoore (1251644898|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This post was truly inspired by RSS. It has shown me that everything might be ok. I know this sounds odd, but read on.
Introduction
To be honest, after...
By samoore (1251644902|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Free for .edu Addresses. Unlimited downloading of music.
Ruckus Wikipedia Page
Ruckus Website
By samoore (1251644897|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
Recently, as I was browsing through Technorati and Bloglines to find new RSS feeds related to SaaS, I came across an extremely interesting...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
WOW! I wish I would have known about half of the photo search engines we talked about in my BIT 330 class before I left for Salamanca, Spain this...
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title
date
shortDescription
At beginning of class
Stuff.
My notes
Stuff.
Exercises
Stuff.
Resources
Stuff.
title
date
shortDescription
At beginning of class
Stuff.
My notes
Stuff.
Exercises
Stuff.
Resources
Stuff.
Date
Title
To do
09/03
01-introduction
09/08
02-Web search
Search tool data gathering
Start working on assignment
09/10
03-Wiki instruction day
Search tool overlap data...
Date
Title
To do
09/09
01 Introduction
09/14
02 Web search
09/16
03 Wikidot & Twitter
09/18
Twitter start-up completed
Wikidot profile completed
Information added to...
This page contains all the daily schedule pages from the whole semester.
This page contains all the exercises from the whole semester.
By samoore (1251644888|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The School of Everything is a web service for people who have something to teach and for those who might want their services.
As Cory Doctorow said at...
by Scott Moore (samoore in BIT330, Fall 2008)
Summary data for the class
Search engine overlap data
The following tables contains the precision of the top 20 results returned on queries and the...
Basics
Assignment date
Due Date
Percent of Grade
10/07/2009
11/25/2009
15
Description
You will complete an in-depth analysis of a search engine. The idea is to use our knowledge of how search...
By samoore (1259592876|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1260200441|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In this post I provide some feedback based on my grading of this assignment.
Rubric
These are the points...
On this page I want you to put your name, username, and the Web site that you are going to analyze. Put it in order by the name of the Web site.
|| yourName || [[*user yourUserName]] ||...
By samoore (1256680682|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1256680933|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I've gotta tell you that I'm somewhat disappointed with the level of communication and/or planning ahead...
By npajank (1254691622|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
For all you people who are having a hard time finding a new search engine, here is a search engine that will, among other things, help you search for...
By maverboo (1259083219|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
Before the internet was so prevalently used, radio stations were king. People listened to radio for almost a century to get their news,...
Here's a description of what this assignment entails. (The sign-up page is here.)
You are responsible for one Google or Yahoo or search industry update (added to this site, not yours)
When adding...
By samoore (1251644909|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
For my BIT 330 class, I am doing my term project on Apple Inc. For this, I must analyze every aspect of the company and all of its products. I like to...
By samoore (1251644898|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In order to accurately follow Apple Inc. for my term project, I need to track a lot of information. Apple is a gossip machine, churning out tons of...
By samoore (1251644897|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
As my next blog entry, I've decided to try applying what we've learned in class about Web Directories and RSS feeds to my term project. Up until now...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Because of my experience with web design I was very interested to see some of the interfaces that these other search tools used. A lot of tools use...
By samoore (1251644892|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In an article in the Search Engine Journal, Steve Ballmer's most recent comments about search are discussed].
For Microsoft, they are the only company...
These are the main RSS feeds related to the search industry that I follow. I also have a page on which I publish the shared feed articles from my RSS feeds. If you're desperate for an article...
Find pages containing…
Google
Yahoo
Bing
Ask
the words biking and italy
biking italy
biking italy
biking italy
biking Italy
the exact phrase "I have a dream"
"I have a dream"
"I have a...
The due date for this assignment is 9/15. This looks like a ton of work but it's actually not that bad — I was just really obsessive-compulsive with the directions. (I hope they end up being...
By samoore (1251644899|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
by Jennifer Stanczak (jenstan in BIT330, Fall 2008)
Questions and queries
Web search engines
When I was younger I always played with Barbie dolls. I had...
This is a separate assignment from the two data collection assignments. You should not talk (or text, or message, etc.) about this assignment with anyone else in the class until after the due date....
By samoore (1251644900|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
by Brian Hendricks (BrianHeM10 in BIT330, Fall 2008)
Questions and queries
Web search engines
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications is currently the...
When you add your values to this table, please look at how I entered my row. Notice that the numbers are between 0 and 100 — they are not values between 0.0 and 1.0. Further, notice how I entered...
The due date for this assignment is 9/17. This looks like a ton of work but it's actually not that bad — I was just really obsessive-compulsive with the directions. (I hope they end up being...
Add a row to each one of the tables below. Use the template provided by the row with my name. Each value should be a number between 0 and 20 (inclusive) indicating the number of results from one...
By samoore (1251644905|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here's a great article at the NYT about how "Google Seduces with Utility". I have a feeling it describes how many of you feel about the company.
By samoore (1251644914|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I have enjoyed putting together the transition wiki for the SEMCOG Transit Panel. My wiki is designed to explain to a new panel the current public...
By moonpark (1255282830|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
With the world constantly changing, the demand for live information has exponentially grown in recent years. Many web-based search engines such as...
By samoore (1251644908|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Currently I am preparing for my first interivew of my recruiting process for a Technology Advisory Intern position at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In class,...
By samoore (1251644903|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Sending PricewaterhouseCoopers Through Pipes
Currently I am preparing for my first interivew of my recruiting process for a Technology Advisory Intern...
You can find all of my shared items from RSS feeds on this page.
Welcome page
What is a Wiki Site?
How to edit pages?
How to join this site?
Site members
Recent changes
List all pages
Page Tags
Site Manager
Ross Brown Bag
CRLT Brown Bag
Page...
By aegreen (1261430861|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
SiloBreaker is a revolutionary news search, analysis and insight engine that certainly gave me some new insights when I used it. Below is a blog from my...
By kfreels (1261532767|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In this blog post, I'll be examining how Silobreaker, a news analysis tool, works. Since I finally picked my term project topic (fast food industry -...
By joshuaaa (1261250511|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Which is the better news search engine? This blog compares the two, looking at their overall user experience, ease of use, and functionality.
News...
Members:
Moderators
Admins
This page is for saving sites that the class might find useful and/or interesting. Feel free to add to the set of "interesting pages" below.
Interesting pages
The Most Useful Web Tools...
By afilush (1260990056|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Dr. Scott Moore,
I hope you will enjoy my wiki on Smartphones as much as I enjoyed this class! And although it isn't the purpose of the project, I think...
By ranfan (1261369945|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In this blog, I will first explain a bit what social bookmarking is, it's pros and cons, then compare two popular social bookmarking sites: Delicious and...
By mkeagy (1261409032|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Access a wide variety of content
Social bookmarking sites are a great source to find information on the aviation industry across the web. By serving as...
By samoore (1251644914|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
For my term project for BIT330, I researched the Social Networking Industry. My Wikidot site gives insight to an analyst in the industry on about how to...
By moonpark (1261427855|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Background
With the introduction of Web 2.0, the internet users were able to interact with the webpage by commenting on posts, voting and uploading...
I use a Macintosh computer (all varieties: desktop, laptop, mini, iMac). I try to use the Firefox browser as much as possible. I also have the Safari web browser installed on my computer. I prefer...
I use a Macintosh computer (all varieties: desktop, laptop, mini, iMac). I try to use the Firefox browser as much as possible. I also have the Safari web browser installed on my computer. I prefer...
By samoore (1251644913|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Goal of the SaaS Wiki
The purpose of my Wiki was to inform an industry analyst about what is Software-as-a-Service, why it is important, and how to stay...
By dabilen (1260924638|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here is some information on some of the cool stuff I learned how to do:
Put a playlist feature into the Homepage
Create a live Twitter Event...
This is where you need to sign up. You need to sign up once in each table. Sign up by using your username:
[[*user samoore]]
This should then show up as samoore.
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo...
By ranfan (1256528847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Spectives is the world's first visual RSS browser.
Spectives launched on October 6, 2009. To get a one minute tutorial, go watch this Vimeo...
By samoore (1251644888|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The graphic featured in this article at SearchEngineLand shows how search fits into a broad range of different ways to reach customers.
I found it to...
By samoore (1251644902|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This is a great little website, perfect for wasting time. Sporcle is a continually-evolving trivia site, with the tagline "mentally stimulating...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I have finally put together the data from both of the data-gathering exercises that you have completed....
Web-based information resources
This is the home page for BIT330, “Web-based information resources”, taught by Scott Moore at the Ross School of Business in Fall (September—December) 2009....
By samoore (1251644914|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
View The Wiki
For my project I created a guide for potential entrepreneurs who are interested in expanding their idea into a product and also acquiring...
By samoore (1251644904|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
State Stats is an interesting little application that I stumbled across. You enter a query that you are interested in and then it gives you information,...
This status report is due on October 5; it is worth 3% of your final grade. By this date you must have done the following:
Decide on topic
Be sure to have talked with me about your topic before...
This status report is due on October 21; it is worth 3% of your final grade. By this date you should have done the following:
Should have added list of relevant Web pages, Web sites (description...
This status report is due on November 23; it is worth 4% of your final grade. I don't expect you to have completed everything on this list, but this is what I was looking for at this time. The...
By samoore (1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Now that you are turning in blog entries and I'm actually grading them, I have had students who have...
This page contains a list of students and some associated pages.
Instructions
Your inserted line should be of the form:
|| your actual name || [[*user yourUserName]] || yourUniqname ||...
Name
User name
Uniqname
Twitter
Title (with link)
Michael Averbook
maverboo
maverboo
maverboo
Movie Distribution Industry
Leore Avidar
bavidar
bavidar
bavidar
US Based Online Brokerage...
Here is much of the information that students typically think of as being part of the course syllabus:
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The huge influx of tag based sites has effected my website, UMHoops.com, and also has a lot of effects on the industry I'm investigation as well as...
By ranfan (1261369770|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Talent Overload is the world's most talented search engine!
Chuck Lamb says he owes millions and he is trying his hardest to pay it back. Not dollars,...
By samoore (1251644890|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Ahoy, me hearty!
Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Basics
Assignment date
Due Date
Percent of Grade
9/14/2009
12/14/2009
30
Description
Overview
You are going to do one report on a specific topic. You should think about the report in the...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I found the page that lists last year's term project topics. You should ignore the "Personal" topics and...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
The status report is due on September 29. None of this is new, but I want to be sure that you understand...
By samoore (1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644849|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I don't expect you to have completed everything on this list, but this is what I was looking for at this...
Basics
Assignment date
Due Date
Percent of Grade
12/02/2009
12/02/2009
15
Description
This test will be multiple choice, true/false, and short answer. If you come to class, complete the...
This is a test.
Here we go.
Big title
Small title
And some text.
By samoore (1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
(I sent this as an email, except for the one bold sentence below. This is just for record keeping.)
Just...
By samoore (1260199910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1260199910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here's information about the test results.
Most...
By samoore (1254339421|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
When you're working with computers as much as you are, there are times when you need to be able to save a plain text file with no extra formatting. The...
By samoore (1251644898|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
My entire life, I have always loved hockey. Growing up, I played both roller and ice hockey and I was a member of my high school varsity team. It is...
By afilush (1254194823|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I'm not sure this fully qualifies as part of the search industry, but I am so excited about this new website so I have to share.
I came across this...
By samoore (1251644905|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
I naturally have a tendency to be skeptical of web resources that I have never heard of. Before our class on The Deep Web, I had no idea...
By afilush (1261508150|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Previous to this class, I had never heard of the Invisible, or "Deep Web." The concept of Google not indexing all the sites on the web made sense, but...
By samoore (1251644908|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I'll admit it. Like most people, I am "Google Image Loyal" when it comes to searching for images. Why shouldn't I be? It's fast, it's easy, it's well...
By vivanov (1255537851|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
“Back in my day we had to walk 3 miles to school….barefoot….” Does this sound familiar? Sometimes you want to answer: “So what grandpa? I can...
By mkeagy (1261409149|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Year in review…
Much can change in the commercial aviation industry in a year, and 2009 was no exception. Here are the top 3 news stories (in my...
By rolay117 (1254106437|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Do you fear search engines? I would. If I ran an internet site that is. As the Internets top search engines continue to grow and develop new innovative...
By samoore (1251644908|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Have you ever felt Google was too broad a tool to use? Did receiving 1,200,000 results about a topic seem daunting to browse? That is the solution that...
By samoore (1251644912|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
There was a pretty funny article in the Daily today about Google Analytics. I figured I'd share since it's relevant to what we've covered in...
As the end of the semester draws nigh, I find myself searching for a final blog topic that I found useful during my term project. People search was not extremely helpful. Video and image search...
By joshuaaa (1261335906|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
As the end of the semester draws nigh, I find myself searching for a final blog topic that I found useful during my term project. People search was not...
By ranfan (1261369826|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Thoora is a just launched real-time search engine that'll help you "Discover What the World is Talking About."
Background
According to their own...
By samoore (1251644913|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I’ll be completely honest here- as a senior student who is graduating in a few months and is in the home stretch of 16+ long years of class, it’s...
By samoore (1251644901|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This story at Wired describes very tiny portraits of Barack Obama made here at the University of Michigan by John Hart.
By samoore (1254341202|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Courtesy of mike_danhof: recently TechXav posted an article listing the top 100 most visited articles on Wikipedia in 2009.
Class Info
Home
Schedule
Assignments
Syllabus
Grades
Instructor
Class 2008
Content
Web tools
Search syntax
Best search tools
Wiki resources
RSS feed items
Search related feeds
Notes...
By dabilen (1261511216|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Topsy: The Power of Tweets
Topsy is one of the tools that I have been recently introduced to ever since I joined the Tweeting world of Twitter....
By moonpark (1261427613|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Are you a travel fanatic? Well I am one, and have always tried to the best deals for my air tickets. So I have made a list of my favorite websites and...
By samoore (1251644895|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
If you have trouble downloading an Excel file from within your browser, here's a tip that might help you.
If the file ends in zip after you download it,...
My username is drsamoore.
We will use the hash #bit330 in order to identify posts related to this class.
You can find twitter posts for this class at this page.
By mkeagy (1261408881|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Taking Off
The Airline Industry is a great example of businesses using Twitter effectively (and ineffectively). For the month of August 2009, Social...
By Wdchen (1261280072|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Check out these two unique and interesting search tools!
Purpose
In this blog, I want to demonstrate/describe the functionality of two search tools that...
By oish330 (1261692714|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
While playing around after our class on real time information, I discovered the search engine uberVu that tracks real time conversation trends on the...
For more information, you should look at the Ross Business School calendar and the official UM Academic calendar for Fall 2009.
Holiday or event
Date(s)
Ramadhan
Aug 21 — Sept 19
Classes...
On this page you should add to the list of useful RSS filters so that we can all get the most out of this powerful set of tools.
# [*theURL NameOfPipe] ([[*user yourUserName]]):...
By samoore (1251644907|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
The "Deep Web" is the enormous amount of information that is hidden from normal search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Live, and AltaVista....
By samoore (1251644873|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
There have been a couple of really interesting Google developments since the last time we had an update in class. I think the fact that these updates...
By robo24wolverine (1258956342|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
As we get closer to Thanksgiving, we find ourselves expecting the holiday season that comes right after. People celebrate the holidays, and most...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Who would have thought that video search would be a useful tool for the topic of my wiki? Since I am preparing a transition for a new SEMCOG transit...
By moonpark (1261427679|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Introduction
With the continues developments in World Wide Web combined with dramatic increase in the number of users, the demand for video feeds has...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Moving Away From You Tube
For following current events of Disney Pictures, it is really helpful to look at the trailers of upcoming films. However, some...
Site
Your rating (separate with commas)
YouTube
5,3,4,4,2,2,5,2,4,3,2,4
Truveo
4,5,5,4,2,4,5,4,3,4,4,5
Blinkx
4,4,2,3,2,4,2,2,3,4,3,4
By samoore (1251644903|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Today's WSJ has a review of VideoSurf. You might find it interesting.
By keyurpat (1255727991|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
As I was looking for search engines to research the other day, I came across one alternative video search that really caught my eye. I’m an avid user...
By samoore (1251644915|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I loved working on this project!! This wiki is supposed to provide an overview on the state of Walt Disney Pictures as it stands today, its affiliation...
1.
for Google, i got 44,700,000
for Yahoo, i got 434,000,000
for Bing, i got 59,500,000
for Ask, i got 13,500,000
2.
for technorati, i got 66,361
for Google Blog Search, i got 20,597,263
for...
by Scott Moore (samoore in BIT330, Fall 2009)
Summary data
The following tables contains the precision of the top 10 results returned on queries and the number of overlap documents shared between...
This is due by Sunday, 9/27, at 5pm (so that I can summarize the information for next class). This looks like a ton of work but it's actually not that bad — I was just really obsessive-compulsive...
When you add your values to this table, please look at how I entered my row. Notice that the numbers are between 0 and 100 — they are not values between 0.0 and 1.0. Further, notice how I entered...
Google
Limits
Return up to 1000 results for a query
Limits a search query to 10 words
Indexes pages in HTML, PDF, DOC, PPT (any others?)
Defaults to and
Query modifiers
+ — must include...
We will use most, if not all, of the following Web sites during the semester.
Web search
Google : the king of all search engines
Yahoo : the former king but no small potatoes
Clustering search...
By moonpark (1261427531|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
With the rise of the Web 2.0, the demand for live updates has exponentially increased in the recent years. As a result, some search tools were...
By JEgerer (1258337641|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
… They both want to make money. Yahoo and Google, representing the search industry, just recently initiated talks with the FDA about how to treat...
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
By samoore (1251644900|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
One of the websites from today's class about the Deep Web was BNet. Our professor talked briefly about it, mentioning that he was relatively knew to the...
By samoore (1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644847|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I have come up with a graphic that — I think, anyway — helps show the relationship among all the...
By samoore (1251644907|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Some sites, for whatever reasons, don't have an RSS feature that allows you to receive updates through your blog roll. This can became inconvenient when...
By samoore (1262099162|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
This page is going to contain my (periodically) updated thoughts about what to do in the next version of this course.
Tools that I should definitely...
By samoore (1251644889|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
If you have 20 minutes or so, take in these videos.
Watch the 2005 video first, then the 2008, then read the article, then watch the top video on the...
Do you want to learn about how to use Google and Yahoo to a more in-depth level than the average student? Do you want to know where and how to find interesting blogs, images, and podcasts? How...
Do you want to learn about how to use Google and Yahoo to a more in-depth level than the average student? Do you want to know where and how to find interesting blogs, images, and podcasts? How...
By oish330 (1257787891|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Free Wi-Fi is all over the place (except at Starbucks in Ann Arbor….). Access to the internet has never been easier, and thanks to Microsoft, Google,...
By JEgerer (1261516698|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Having pretty much exhausted the blogging opportunities supported by our class sessions I thought I'd shift gears to Wikidot, to explore some of the...
Wiki instruction
How to create your own site
Updating your profile
Inviting a new member
How to edit pages
Editing text
The following two videos should be considered to be just one video...
By samoore (1251644902|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I just found out this service existed. We only focused on Yahoo and Google e-mail alert services, but in case anyone wants to try out one for Live...
By nikgupta (1254900471|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I'm not a math geek. I don't even like math that much. Perhaps I should have let someone who was truly mad about mathematics to discover and blog about...
General resources
Yahoo! Press Room
Yahoo News Alerts
Yahoo News Email Alerts
Yahoo News RSS Feeds
Yahoo Search Help
Videos on how to use the new Search Assist
Blogs: Yahoo Search Blog, Yodel...
By mike_danhof (1261366944|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In an interesting development, Yahoo has ordered a website to take down its detailed listing of spying services it provides to law enforcement...
By keyurpat (1258303874|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Real-time Information and the Introduction of Real-time Search
What is real-time information? Simply put, it is the information that internet users are...
By joshuaaa (1253903017|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
On September 22, 2009, the new Yahoo! Search was made available for public use. Yahoo!'s brand-new search experience claims to make searching "more...
By jenmmart (1257133523|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
It’s almost ironic to use my wikidot page to discuss the downfall of Yahoo!’s GeoCities website, one of the earliest hosts of personal...
By samoore (1251644890|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
As reported by the Yahoo corporate blog, Yahoo is testing a new home page design.
With this redesign, they're testing ways in which to integrate the...
By samoore (1251644898|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
In my last post, I talked about how amazing I think RSS is. This post is about how to apply the usefulness of RSS to news search engines. I decided to...
By samoore (1251644904|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Yahoo Pipes is so intense and elaborate and confusing yet really cool. In this blog I'm going to attempt to make a blog of news related sites with...
By samoore (1251644912|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Here is a summary from Yahoo about the year in search at the #2 search firm: Year in Review (at Yahoo).
By samoore (1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p, last edited at 1251644848|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
Yes, I'm sure you were responsible:
By samoore (1251644913|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
I like to think that I have pretty good top-of-mind awareness regarding web tools for certain functions, especially after completing the most part of...
By samoore (1251644910|%a, %b %e at %I:%M%p)
YouTube is a cultural phenomenon, the service that revolutionized video search technologies on the internet. But I was not sure how good of a research...
