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Google Zeitgeist

Funny how Google's immense traffic makes it a mirror of the concerns of its time. Check out Google Zeitgeist for a shimmering reflection of our society.

Also interesting: eBay Pulse, Lycos 50, Yahoo Buzz.

Source: check out the goddamn best resource on all things search: John Battelle's Searchblog.

Search Result Sorting

Tim Bray has published another excellent post regarding search: this one regarding the sorting of large result sets. One commenter on this article noticed that Google doesn't display any more that 1000 search results for any query, and therefore wondered about the validity of Google's Result page claim that, say, 1,390,000 documents were found for a particular query.  In any case, Tim rightly points out that most users rarely drill down past the first hundred results.

Also check out Tim's excellent series On Search, which is an excellent overview to the intersection of technical and design of best practices for full-text search design and implementation.

Google Scholar

A better flavor of "advanced search" that allows you to search over a particular domain of content -- academic and peer-reviewed articles Google Scholar will also present results even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means that search results may include citations of works that appear in offline publications!

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

http://scholar.google.com/