"HotGirls on TikTok, why do I look stupid at the gym?"
A social-search-request example.
A social-search-request example.
A social-search-request from Timothy B. Lee.
A screenshot from Friday AI.
“explore practices for discovering, maintaining, and adding to the many internets blossoming beneath app hedges and large platforms:”
A post from Rob Haisfield.
A post from Nick Dobos.
An example setup for transcribing videos from TikTok.
A post from François Chollet.
Fact-checks a Reddit claim about unique Google searches by analyzing the random query 'dbw0340tokfkds;a' through Google Trends data.
An excerpt from Sullivan (2017).
Critiques the '15% of Google searches are new' statistic, examining how Google frames it to suggest impressive capabilities without providing meaningful context.
Describing a search engine for your complaints
Tweet from Clement Delangue.
Weblink post sharing Stanford's Intervenr platform for sociotechnical audits.
Have, could, would, should?
Is this a query for which “only general search engines return links to websites with information you might be looking for”?
A discussion of mismatch in the search experience (between query, presented search results, and content) and missing contextually-relevant explanations.
An excerpt from Lewis's "The people who ruined the internet"
Early draft exploring sources of search failures and related research on algorithms of oppression, search quality complaints, and sociotechnical imaginaries around Google Search.
A search quality complaint from journalist Louise Matsakis.