MetaFilter posts tagged with search

Do you really know who people are?

tellurian — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:39:32 -0800

Criminal Searches - Making you feel safer or increasing your fear? No results for Theodore Kaczynski.

Your roots. They has a flavor.

spec80 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:09:30 -0800

Have Food Will Travel: Pearl River Delta is a travelogue teaser video from Leonard Shek, a second generation Chinese American from San Francisco. Shek traveled to the Guangdong Province as part of the SF Chinese Culture Center's In Search of Roots program. While the main purpose of the trips is for Chinese Americans to explore where their parents or grandparents came from, Shek wanted to explore the origins of the food he grew up with.

Search+mashup=smashup

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:20:20 -0800

Viewzi is a kind of metasearch tool built around 'views'. It's kind of the antiGoogle in that it's not so much for quick answers as for idle looking around, and it's all about the UI, but it's interesting and pretty and kind of fun. Beta, naturally, and fully buzzword compliant. Flash haters will probably hate it. Usability people may have an aneurism. That's OK. [via] Plans for the future (it's only been public since last month, apparently) include the ability to create new views, specify your default view and limit your selection to views you find useful, amongst other stuff, including, of course, an API.

The web conceived in 1934?

Argyle — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:15:11 -0800

Le réseau - Starting in the late 19th century, Belgian Paul Otlet envisioned the basics of a human powered Wikipedia and Google. He created a 12 million item database on index cards and accepted queries via mail or telegraph. The article describes his work and the Mundaneum museum in his honor. Be sure to watch the video. There is a full documentary on Otlet as well.

"Rendezvous With Yesterday"

Kronos_to_Earth — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:32:03 -0800

Lost and forgotten videos? Find your way back: TimeTube! via

Damn his science is too tight!

dhammond — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:28:52 -0800

The SEO Rapper (a.k.a. The Poetic Prophet) spits rhymes on such topics as Design Coding, Link Building, Paid Search, and Conversion Closing for all your marketing campaign and web design needs.

Search Engine on Acid

dhammond — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:20:11 -0800

Oamos is a "metasearch engine" that generates a sprawling cornucopia of sound, text and images based on your query.

Search engine focused in Spanish blogs

jlori — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:12:19 -0800

Search into + 250,000 blogs in Spanish The Spanish blog portal Bitacoras.com released a widget to search into more than 250,000 blogs written in Spanish.

net.art generator

Kattullus — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:57:29 -0800

net.art generator [via William Gibson] The art is created through a Google image search and some automatic image manipulation. For examples, go here.

Sorting it all out

Toekneesan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:46:09 -0800

Future Reading. Anthony Grafton explores what we can learn about the future of the text from the history of libraries, publishers, and the sorting of books. See also, A Discussion With Anthony Grafton, The Nutty Professors, and Grafton's lecture on Faustus