"Google are upping the stakes in search with a roll out of new ways to slice and dice your search results. The most interesting and useful for me, as a journalist, is the ability to limit the search to the last 24 hours. I can imagine using this frequently. See Google's blog post here.
"We were told that the hardest problems in search were:
- Finding the most recent information - Expressing that you want just one type of result - Assessing which results are best - Knowing what you’re looking for - Expressing your searches in keywords
"By allowing you to search the last 24 hours only, Google is getting to real-time search but is not there yet. The only place at the moment where this is a reality is Twitter. Its search function allows you to find out what people are saying now about the latest film release, earthquake, whatever. This real-time discovery can be incredibly useful."
The trouble with “online media” is that it, to my mind, implies the state of your PC constantly connected to the Internet via an ethernet cable or wi-fi. But it doesn’t really work to describe mobile devices like phones or e-readers (e.g., Amazon’s Kindle), which increasingly are supplementing or even replacing the PC as Internet access devices and retrieve data from the Internet on-demand.
Went to see a preview screening of Coraline yesterday evening - totally magical.
"Add to those interested parties the millions who love the fantasy-rich literature of Neil Gaiman and those who adore the dreamscape artistry of Nightmare Before Christmas filmmaker Henry Selick, and you have the audience for Coraline: everybody. This thrilling stop-motion animated adventure is a high point in Selick's career of creating handcrafted wonderlands of beauty blended with deep, disconcerting creepiness."
Carly's Blog is where I post bits and pieces that interest me and occasionally write a line or two. I'm based in London and work in Search Engine Optimisation for one of the big online newspapers.
