[vox] 'Homework' for Monday's LUGOD talk on blekko

[Chris Evans]

I liked the way it categorized into appropriate categories, I type cost of
milk and it only gave listing relating to money and milk
Curious what does blekko stand for?



On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Bill Kendrick wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Greg Lindahl -----
>
> Hi! This is Greg Lindahl, your speaker for Monday the 16th. I'm going
> to be talking about blekko's search engine, and I'd like to give you
> guys some homework to do so that I can drag informed opinions from you
> at the end of my talk.
>
> If you go to https://blekko.com and run some queries, you'll see that
> we're trying hard to be different from Google. One way is that we use
> human curation -- the curation is open data! -- and the other way is
> that we cluster results into categories. This second feature works
> best with more ambiguous queries. So, your homework:
>
> * Make a couple of ambiguous but non-geeky queries, and see what you
> think.
>
> * Make a couple of ambiguous geeky queries, and see what you think.
>
> * And finally, make a couple of your typical geeky queries.
>
> There will be a pop quiz at the end of my talk. Thanks!
>
> -- greg
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
> For more on Monday's meeting, visit http://www.lugod.org/meeting/ as
> usual!
>
> --
> -bill!
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