Comments on: What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Our experience with Google Custom Search http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-2030603 Our experience with Google Custom Search Fri, 07 May 2010 23:18:23 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-2030603 [...] Zuckerman wrote about problems with Co-op search back in October, and Google quickly responded with a fix. However, we’re seeing a lot of [...] [...] Zuckerman wrote about problems with Co-op search back in October, and Google quickly responded with a fix. However, we’re seeing a lot of [...]

]]> By: Eph News » EphBlog http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-1105047 Eph News » EphBlog Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:50:45 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-1105047 [...] ideas? DeWitt’s involvment in Open Search is clearly relevant while Ethan’s recent work is too complex for me to follow, much less implement.   « House for Sale | Richest [...] [...] ideas? DeWitt’s involvment in Open Search is clearly relevant while Ethan’s recent work is too complex for me to follow, much less implement.   « House for Sale | Richest [...]

]]> By: unofficial google aggregated » Blog Archive » The search engine that could http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-127831 unofficial google aggregated » Blog Archive » The search engine that could Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:19:39 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-127831 [...] Last week, Ethan Zuckerman wrote a great article explaining why Custom Search Engines would be so useful for communities such as the Global Voices network. He built a CSE to search over 3000 blogs from across the world. This is exactly the kind of application we built our platform for — not just because of the scale of his search engine, but also the cause it serves and its collaborative approach. Unfortunately, as he explains in his article, queries on his search engine for some of the terms he’s interested in didn’t work very well. [...] [...] Last week, Ethan Zuckerman wrote a great article explaining why Custom Search Engines would be so useful for communities such as the Global Voices network. He built a CSE to search over 3000 blogs from across the world. This is exactly the kind of application we built our platform for — not just because of the scale of his search engine, but also the cause it serves and its collaborative approach. Unfortunately, as he explains in his article, queries on his search engine for some of the terms he’s interested in didn’t work very well. [...]

]]> By: AI3:::Adaptive Information » Blog Archive » Google’s Custom Search Engine (CSE): Impressive Start, but Some Quibbles Remain http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-111550 AI3:::Adaptive Information » Blog Archive » Google’s Custom Search Engine (CSE): Impressive Start, but Some Quibbles Remain Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:47:01 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-111550 [...] I recently announced the release of my own CSE — SweetSearch — that is a comprehensive and authoritative search engine for all topics related to the semantic Web and Web 2.0. Like Ethan Zuckerman who published his experience in creating a CSE for Ghana in late October, I too have had some issues. Ethan’s first post was entitled, “What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well,” posted on October 27. Yet, by November 6, the Google Co-op team had responded sufficiently that Ethan was able to post a thankful update, “Google Fixes My Custom Search Problems.” I’m hoping some of my own issues get a similarly quick response. [...] [...] I recently announced the release of my own CSE — SweetSearch — that is a comprehensive and authoritative search engine for all topics related to the semantic Web and Web 2.0. Like Ethan Zuckerman who published his experience in creating a CSE for Ghana in late October, I too have had some issues. Ethan’s first post was entitled, “What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well,” posted on October 27. Yet, by November 6, the Google Co-op team had responded sufficiently that Ethan was able to post a thankful update, “Google Fixes My Custom Search Problems.” I’m hoping some of my own issues get a similarly quick response. [...]

]]> By: …My heart’s in Accra » Search weblogs on Global Voices http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-93992 …My heart’s in Accra » Search weblogs on Global Voices Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:20:21 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-93992 [...] We’ve just added a very cool feature to Global Voices - the ability to search through 4,800 of the weblogs our editors consult most frequently in putting together their roundup of blogs from around the world. The backend for this search technology is Google’s Co-op search, which I complained about in this blog post, then raved about in this post - in between the two posts, Google used some of our feedback to tune their algorithms and produce results that are much better suited to blogs than to the sites they’d used as their initial testbed. [...] [...] We’ve just added a very cool feature to Global Voices – the ability to search through 4,800 of the weblogs our editors consult most frequently in putting together their roundup of blogs from around the world. The backend for this search technology is Google’s Co-op search, which I complained about in this blog post, then raved about in this post – in between the two posts, Google used some of our feedback to tune their algorithms and produce results that are much better suited to blogs than to the sites they’d used as their initial testbed. [...]

]]> By: Vidal http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-85071 Vidal Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:57:25 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-85071 My Google Co-op example: You Search for unprotected live webcam streams found through a variety of clever search techniques done with the Google Co-op custom search engine tool. http://www.camhacker.com My Google Co-op example:
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]]> By: …My heart’s in Accra » What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well « über was man so stolpert http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-83493 …My heart’s in Accra » What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well « über was man so stolpert Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:57:54 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-83493 [...] Im Artikel von …My heart’s in Accra » What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well stehen zusätzlich zur den Google Co op Review Infos über Konkurrenzprodukte. [...] [...] Im Artikel von …My heart’s in Accra » What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well stehen zusätzlich zur den Google Co op Review Infos über Konkurrenzprodukte. [...]

]]> By: Vincent Abry http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-83073 Vincent Abry Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:29:30 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-83073 Hello, Searching among 3000 blogs is great but the only main problem I see is that the content is too old, 1 or 2 days... not like Google Blogsearch. And searching fresh posts in blogs is what people want. I made a french Custom Blog Search http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=006257974143066747032%3Ark6-j5ph12e searching among the 200 most popular french blogs (france and quebec) when I realized this problem of freshness.. Will Google have the Anser to this? thanks, Vince. Hello,

Searching among 3000 blogs is great but the only main problem I see is that the content is too old, 1 or 2 days… not like Google Blogsearch.
And searching fresh posts in blogs is what people want.
I made a french Custom Blog Search
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=006257974143066747032%3Ark6-j5ph12e
searching among the 200 most popular french blogs (france and quebec) when I realized this problem of freshness..
Will Google have the Anser to this?

thanks,

Vince.

]]> By: …My heart’s in Accra » Google fixes my custom search problems http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-78329 …My heart’s in Accra » Google fixes my custom search problems Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:41:33 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-78329 [...] About a week ago, I wrote a blog post about my experiments with Google Coop Search, complaining that the engine I’d built to search Global Voices blogs retrieved very few results - three for a search on “Ghana”, for instance, leading me to the conclusion that the product was doing little more than retrieving the top 1000 results from Google’s main catalog and searching for sites in the subset of sites I’d included in the engine. [...] [...] About a week ago, I wrote a blog post about my experiments with Google Coop Search, complaining that the engine I’d built to search Global Voices blogs retrieved very few results – three for a search on “Ghana”, for instance, leading me to the conclusion that the product was doing little more than retrieving the top 1000 results from Google’s main catalog and searching for sites in the subset of sites I’d included in the engine. [...]

]]> By: Google CSE: Google Mashup « Better Software. Better Science. Better S*. http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/27/what-google-coop-search-doesnt-do-well/comment-page-1/#comment-77989 Google CSE: Google Mashup « Better Software. Better Science. Better S*. Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:40:26 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-77989 [...] I was busy with other things, so I’m just now getting around to checking out Google Custom Search Engine (GCSE). I find I’m a bit disappointed after reading where Ethan Zuckerman explains how GCSE is lacking: A little poking solves the mystery pretty quickly. Google Coop Search works by searching against the main Google search catalog, retrieving 1000 results and filtering them against the sites you’ve included in your catalog. This makes sense, computationally - these searches are fast, almost as fast as normal Google searches. Rather than conducting 3000 “site:” searches and collating and reranking the results, Google is sacrificing recall, getting 1000 results and discarding those not in your set of chosen sites, which requires one call to the index and a really big regular expression match. [...] [...] I was busy with other things, so I’m just now getting around to checking out Google Custom Search Engine (GCSE). I find I’m a bit disappointed after reading where Ethan Zuckerman explains how GCSE is lacking: A little poking solves the mystery pretty quickly. Google Coop Search works by searching against the main Google search catalog, retrieving 1000 results and filtering them against the sites you’ve included in your catalog. This makes sense, computationally – these searches are fast, almost as fast as normal Google searches. Rather than conducting 3000 “site:” searches and collating and reranking the results, Google is sacrificing recall, getting 1000 results and discarding those not in your set of chosen sites, which requires one call to the index and a really big regular expression match. [...]

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