"HotGirls on TikTok, why do I look stupid at the gym?"
A social-search-request example.
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ssr: "what are the most useful LLM-powered apps?"
A social-search-request from Timothy B. Lee.
Friday AI
A screenshot from Friday AI.
A syllabus for 'Taking an Internet Walk'
“explore practices for discovering, maintaining, and adding to the many internets blossoming beneath app hedges and large platforms:”
"Don't make me type everything into a box, let me point at stuff."
A post from Rob Haisfield.
"way more accessible to have a list of experiences to try"
A post from Nick Dobos.
TikTok to text: Pyktok, FFmpeg, and Whisper
An example setup for transcribing videos from TikTok.
"building a search engine by listing "every query anyone might ever make""
A post from François Chollet.
[dbw0340tokfkds;a]
Fact-checks a Reddit claim about unique Google searches by analyzing the random query 'dbw0340tokfkds;a' through Google Trends data.
"We don’t have relevancy ratings for search engines"
An excerpt from Sullivan (2017).
True, False, or Useful: '15% of all Google searches have never been searched before.'
Critiques the '15% of Google searches are new' statistic, examining how Google frames it to suggest impressive capabilities without providing meaningful context.
Complainquiry
Describing a search engine for your complaints
"where all orgs, non-profits, academia, startups, small and big companies, from all over the world can build"
Tweet from Clement Delangue.
Intervenr
Weblink post sharing Stanford's Intervenr platform for sociotechnical audits.
"Few consumers would find alternative sources a suitable substitute for general search services."
Have, could, would, should?
[how to change the oil on a 1965 Mustang]
Is this a query for which “only general search engines return links to websites with information you might be looking for”?
[How do you teach your toddler that “bad guys” is a category error?]
A discussion of mismatch in the search experience (between query, presented search results, and content) and missing contextually-relevant explanations.
"an activist reached out and showed him how certain websites he had built were supporting human trafficking"
An excerpt from Lewis's "The people who ruined the internet"
Search Quality Complaints
Early draft exploring sources of search failures and related research on algorithms of oppression, search quality complaints, and sociotechnical imaginaries around Google Search.
"I'm having a much harder time finding news clips via Google search than a few months ago."
A search quality complaint from journalist Louise Matsakis.