Tag: search engines

With every answer, search reshapes our worldview

Sep 5, 2018

in Technology

search, search engines

Our search engines tried to impose structure and find relationships using mainly unintentional clues. You therefore couldn’t rely on them to find everything that would be of help, and not because the information space was too large. Rather, it was because the space was created by us slovenly humans. Source: Weinberger, D. (2017). With every answer,…
Chromium: changing the default keyword search

Nov 18, 2009

in Technology

chromium, default keyword search, Google, google chrome, keyword searches, keywords, search engines, short search, site specific search option, wikipedia

I just came across a pretty cool feature of Chromium…keyword searches. I know that this idea isn’t new, and now that I know about it, it’s clearly documented in the Google Chrome help pages, but I’ll put up some screenshots anyway. You begin by typing the URL of the site you’re going to (Chromium will…
SAAHE conference 2009

Mar 19, 2009

in Conference, Physiotherapy

blogs, cape town, education, Google Docs, journal, peer review, physiotherapy, saahe, search engines, social media, South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town, students, twitter, undergraduate research groups, wikis

I’ve noticed that I’m getting a few hits from search engines with people searching for “SAAHE”, so I can only assume that with the conference coming up in a few months time, interest is on the rise. The SAAHE conference is an annual meeting of the South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town…

Tag: search engines

With every answer, search reshapes our worldview

Chromium: changing the default keyword search

SAAHE conference 2009