Lanzamiento de Wikia Search el 7 de enero

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El motor de búsqueda inspirado en la plataforma wiki y basado en la participación humana más que en los algoritmos, pretende convertirse en la alternativa de código abierto a otros motores como los de Google o Yahoo, y estará disponible el 7 de enero según avanzó su creador Jimmy Wales.

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El proyecto permitirá a los internautas filtrar los sitios y clasificar los resultados de búsqueda, utilizando un modelo de comunidad semejante a la de Wikipedia.

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Wikia Search tiene como objetivo ofrecer un servicio de búsqueda transparente al usuario final frente a "servicios opacos como los de Google o Yahoo", dice su creador.

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Según Wales" las búsquedas son una parte fundamental de la estructura de Internet, pero no está funcionando. No funciona por la misma razón por la que el software propietario nunca funciona: ausencia de libertad, ausencia de una comunidad, ausencia de revisiones, ausencia de transparencia. Aquí cambiaremos todo eso".

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El proyecto, que ha contado con financiación de Amazon.com y Bessemer Venture Partners entre otros, permitirá que terceras personas puedan construir sus propios motores de búsqueda.

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Las mejores imágenes de dominio público

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Las mejores imágenes de dominio público

vía blogoff de Kids el 26/12/07

Aunque a algunos les cueste creerlo eso de ir a Google Imágenes, poner una palabra y llevarnos para nuestra web o documento el primer resultado que aparezca no está del todo bien. La mayoría de las imágenes están protegidas por derechos de autor, al igual que las películas o las canciones, y si usamos una sin permiso y el autor se entera podemos vernos en algún que otro problema.

La ventaja frente a otros contenidos con copyright es que existe una oferta impresionante de imágenes de dominio público por lo que puedes ilustrar la mayoría de tus trabajos sin miedo a que encontrarte con una reclamación, ya que las imágenes de dominio público se pueden copiar y distribuir libremente.

Leyendo Menéame, he llegado a OpenPedia, una web que busca recopilar contenidos de todo tipo pero siempre con la característica común de que los autores de los mismos han decidido que sus obras se distribuyan sin su consentimiento.

Y el punto fuerte de la web, sin duda alguna, es su excepcional selección de páginas con imágenes de dominio público:

• Necesito imágenes de dominio público

De paso aprovecho para recuperar un post viejecito en el que ofrecimos unas cuantas opciones más:

• Imágenes gratis y sin copyright

• También en blogoff: La confusión entre el plagio y las Creative Commons

Cosas que puedes hacer desde aquí:

• Subscribirse a blogoff con Google Reader
• Empieza a utilizar Google Reader para mantenerte al día fácilmente de todos tus sitios favoritos.

China, Japón y Rusia, las pesadillas de Google

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No todo son buenas noticias para Google. Hay tres países en los que encuentra dificultades para ser el rey de las búsquedas: China, Japón y Rusia. En Japón sigue mandando Yahoo!, que además de un portal mantiene uno de los proveedores de acceso más importantes del país nipón. En China y Rusia se imponen por goleada dos buscadores locales a los que Google no puede derrotar.

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El más relevante de todos es el chino Baidu, fundado en 2000 por Robin Li, ex empleado de la americana Infoseek y considerado hoy, a sus 37 años, uno de los hombres más ricos de su país. Baidu tiene el 75% del mercado de las búsquedas en China. Curiosamente, en sus primeros años vivió de lo mismo que Google: de la venta de su tecnología en marca blanca a otros portales.

A día de hoy, con índices de crecimiento anual del 200%, Baidu es una empresa muy rentable y cotiza en Bolsa. Google, que llegó a tener un 2% de su capital, ya no tiene relación accionarial con ella, por lo que compiten abiertamente. Baidu, que ha basado su marketing en su capacidad para buscar en chino, tiene ahora un acuerdo comercial con Microsoft y ha lanzado nuevos productos como Baike, una enciclopedia colaborativa al estilo de Wikipedia.

En Rusia el que impera es Yandex, fundado en 1993 por Arkady Volozh y que a día de hoy acapara dos tercios de las búsquedas en Internet en su país con 6 millones de visitas diarias. Yandex es un acrónimo de 'Yet another indexer' y aporta como novedad la posibilidad de concretar geográficamente las búsquedas, así como de comparar precios en diversas tiendas online. Además, la empresa ha hecho una apuesta de país con la creación de zonas con wi-fi gratuito en 300 puntos de Rusia.

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Google experiments with Digg style

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This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you'll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you've made. Note that this is an experimental feature and may be available for only a few weeks.

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How do I use it?

Like it?

This button (fig. 1b) will move the result to the top of the page and add this orange marker (fig. 1a) next to it so you can easily recognize it. The result(s) you promote will appear at the top whenever you search for the same keyword(s) in the future.

Don't like it?

This button (fig. 1b) will remove the result, and it will remain hidden when you search for the same keyword(s) in the future.

Know of a better webpage?

At the bottom of the search results (fig. 1c) you can give the address of a page that's relevant to your search. When you search for these same keyword(s) the page you've suggested will appear at the top with this orange marker .

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Google Experimental Search

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Search Everywhere: CSE on-the-fly

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Whichever web page you visit, you can use this tool to search web content linked from the current page.

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This extension creates an on-the-fly Google Custom Search Engine, based on the links from the current page.

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Alternately, you can check the "SiteSearch" box and search over just the site you are visiting.

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Current options on the toolbar:

* SiteSearch: If checked, a simple site search will be performed with the provided query, using the regular Google site: operator.

* URL Extraction
Exact: use extracted URLs without modification, to create a very "narrow" search engine.
Paths: use the host+path from an extracted url, but omit any filenames.

Hosts: use only the host from extracted urls to create a "broad" search engine.

* Extraction modifiers

Filter: some of the extracted URLs might be dominate search results for almost any query. For example, if we extract http://nih.gov, it is unlikely any other extracted URL will appear in search results. By enabling this option, the search engine will avoid certain overly-dominant URL patterns, like nih.gov/*.

Boost exact: this allows combination of host or path URL extraction, with an extra layer of exact URL extraction. Exact urls will be prefered in the search results.

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Hosting Linked CSEs using Google Pages

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This document is not a complete reference or tutorial for regular Google Hosted Custom Search Engines, or for Linked Custom Search Engines. Please see my unofficial Linked CSE tutorial for more information. This how-to describes the mechanics of using Google Page Creator to host a Linked CSE. If these documents do not answer your questions, please see my unofficial Linked CSE syntax guide or search the Google CSE user group.

Instructions

1. Create the XML file or files for your Linked CSE. Do this on your computer, not on Google Page Creator. Feel free to copy the example XML Linked CSE definition from the Linked CSE tutorial.
2. Navigate to the Google Page Creator "site manager".
   If you have used Page Creator before, just go to http://pages.google.com. If you have never used Page Creator before, follow these steps:
   • Visit googlepages.com in a web browser. You might be asked to log in to your Google user account. If you don't have a Google user account already, just follow the directions -- it's free, and only takes a few minutes to complete.
   • You should now be at the Google Page Creator splash page. Enjoy the cool graphic, then read the terms of service at the bottom of the page. If you agree to the Terms of Service, check the box and continue. If you don't agree, then you cannot use Google Page Creator to host stuff, including a Linked CSE.
   • You should now be in the Google Page Creator page editor, editing your home page. You don't need to do anything here, but you can if you like. When you are done, either click the "Publish" button to make your homepage visible to the public, or click the "site manager" link on the left of the publish button.
3. On the right side of the screen, notice the "Uploaded stuff" section (that's the proper name, I'm not making it up). For each of your XML Linked CSE file or files, click on the "[upload]" link at the bottom of that section. You can now click the "Browse" button that just appeared, or type in the name of the XML file.
4. The URL for your uploaded files is simple, but depends on your Google user account username. If your username is "marmaduke", and you uploaded a file named "my_annotations.xml", then the URL will be http://marmaduke.googlepages.com/my_annotations.xml. Visit the URL for each file you uploaded, and check that you get the XML contents you expected.
5. You are finished! You now have a Linked CSE definition and annotations hosted by Google Page Creator, and available for use in a Linked CSE. If you haven't finished reading the Linked CSE tutorial, and you haven't got anything better to do, why not read the Linked CSE tutorial now?

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Linked CSE Tutorial

Paul's Unofficial Linked CSE Tutorial

Welcome! You can find official documentation at http://google.com/coop/docs/cse/, where the basics are explained. In this tutorial, I describe how to build a Linked Custom Search Engine, pointing out cool features along the way.

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Federation of Internet Resources for Education

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What is FIRE/LRE ?

• Lighting the FIRE for federating the search of learning resources: A presentation of FIRE by Riina Vuorikari.
• A more technical description of the LRE.

Related Events

• LODE'07: The First International Workshop on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange. September 18, Crete, Greece.
• 2nd Learning Resource Exchange Developer Workshop - June 11-13, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.

Technical Documentation

• How to light FIRE: The FIRE/LRE technical documentation (under construction).
• Learning Resource Exchange: A Developer Perspective: A powerpoint presentation describing the FIRE/LRE APIs necessary to connect to the federation.
• Cerberus Configuration: A powerpoint presentation describing the security aspects of the FIRE/LRE.

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International Workshop on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange

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The LODE'07 workshop was held on September 18, 2007 in conjunction with the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07), Crete, Greece.

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CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES

Although the use of learning (content) management systems is becoming common in most educational organizations and the number of educational resources available online, for free or by subscription, is huge, most of these resources are hidden in repositories and cannot be easily found, which hampers their potential use and reuse.

The workshop brought together researchers and practitioners working at unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories and facilitating the retrieval and exchange of this content. The workshop provided an international forum to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and innovative approaches in the field.

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Clupedia: social clues in the web

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The wisdom of crowds is the collective opinion of people about something. The wisdom of crowds is often smarter than the opinion of a single expert. In his eloquent book entitled "The Wisdom of Crowds", James Surowiecki explains why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes businesses, societies, and nations.

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A clue is your opinion about either an entire web site, or a web page in a web site, or even an item in a web page in a web site.

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A clue can be of many types including ratings, reviews, referrals, recommendations, suggestions, pros, cons, notes, links, favorites, or blogs.

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The Clupedia Toolbar allows you to generate new clues and retrieve existing clues with style about anything and everything displayed on the web

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The benefits of adding clues are the following:

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Help others by sharing your opinion

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Contribute to the wisdom of crowds

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The benefits of retrieving clues are the following:

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Get a second, third, or nth opinion

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Boost your surfing habit

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Interoperability for the Discovery, Use, and Re-Use of Units of Scholarly Communication

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OpenSearchFox: creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox

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Googlepedia: inserting wikipedia articles in search results

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Velingo search tags

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What is Search Mining?

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Search engine users are having a hard time finding what they are looking for. Whether they are not using the correct search term, or the most relevant result is hiding after the 1st results' page – they keep searching, try a different search engine, or give up.
Since search engines are not accurate enough, document tagging becomes essential. Human feedback must be considered as a part of the search engine's decisions. However, manual tagging and voting are very limited and do not reach most search engines.

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When search is not good enough, users are unsatisfied and advertisement revenues are lost.

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Unlike other technologies which require user interaction, Velingo's Search Mining™ is totally transparent. It tracks large amounts of search activities and user decisions, and builds on it a valueless knowledge. This knowledge is then used to help searchers with content and keyword recommendations, and ensures more relevant results. It also relates more relevant advertisements and premium content to any specific search, thus increasing search revenues.

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Velingo's advanced search system was built following Web 2.0 principals.
It is based on the concept that that any user is part of the overall search experience on the local or global search process, and therefore search decisions can help fine tune the experience and results for future users. Overall customer satisfaction increases and users find what they are looking for in a more efficient, accurate, and satisfactory search experience.

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Velingo's technology is designed as a plug-in, and is suitable for any search engine: web, enterprise, intranet, e-commerce, legal, medical and many more.

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How does it work?

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Velingo's technology can be an essential building block for any search. The following diagram details how it works: The user initiates a search by sending a query to the regular search server. The search server sends an asynchronic request to the Velingo Server, which sends a response. This response contains the additional data that is embedded into the Search result page displayed to the user.

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Velingo's Firefox Add-on

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SearchTags is a Firefox extension that enhances Google, Yahoo, and Live search results by adding tags to search result pages.

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Information Collection and Use Practices

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The tags are built automatically from a global social knowledge which is constantly updated by analyzing search logs and search session events.

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The tags can help searchers:

Learn from others – suggest better keywords

Expand or narrow your searches

Find similar results with the same tags

Filter better search results

Help advertisers find better advertisement keywords

Find trends and new buzzwords from other people's searches

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Velingo's enhancements are marked with red rectangles in the following screen capture:

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Each SearchTags user adds knowledge to the Global Knowledge and helps other users. Your decisions during your search sessions will help others, as they will help you in finding better keywords. This is done while fully protecting your privacy.

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SearchTags keeps track of your searches history. This is done to allow you to view this history in one of our next versions. The history information is saved only on your hard drive, and is not shared with anyone else.

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Answers.com: meta-search firefox add-on

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