This Google Trends Visualization Will Mesmerize You | Mashable
See Google trends visualizations tool here. You can choose to view the number of trends by changing the matrix size clicking the icon on the top-left of the screen. Definitely mesmerizing!
I pulled this presentation from: The Evolution of Search in Relation to SEO…05.28.13 | The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog.
My personal preference was to discover new music based on recommendations from previous purchases or my library content, rather than listening to the radio. Or I would be watching a TV program (e.g. So You Think You Can Dance) and hear a track and absolutely must have it. Its time-consuming to find new music, so more and more I’m using recommender systems for discovery. There are so many options available now to discover music, its hard to decide which one is best for you. I’ve used Shazam in the past for recognition and just signed up for This is My Jam to follow what my friends like and Noon Pacific (because who doesn’t want handpicked music recommendations delivered by email!).
(Note: For music within an academic context most academic libraries offer a music library portal or music subject guides.)
Music curation and discovery is shifting from computer-generated algorithms back to including human recommendations and integrating social media and sharing within music streaming and radio services. The article Human Editors Are Returning To Music | FastCompany discusses services Pandora, iTunes, NPR and Rdio in this context.
There seems to be no end to the options for music streaming services, offered offline, online or as apps, free, freemium or subscription-based. Some services put social discovery at the forefront, rather than streaming. Here is a non-comprehensive list of music discovery and streaming services, with emphasis on discovery. Some of these services, such as Pandora (only offered within the U.S), have restrictions based on country.
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Why it’s still hard to discover new music online (and how we can fix it) | Digital Trends
100 Ways to Discover and Enjoy Music | DailyTekk – April 16, 2012
Blekko, the alternative search engine that launched back in 2010, unveiled a major redesign today that uses some of its “slashtag” technology to help users go beyond the usual ten blue links on its competitors search results pages. Blekko now automatically breaks its results down into different categories of curated content.
Google Framed As Book Stealer Bent On Data Domination In New Documentary | TechCrunch
Quotable: “From the second it starts, director Ben Lewis’ opinion is clear: Google Books is as an insidious plot for data domination. See, Google didn’t just want to make a universally accessible library. It wanted to use all the knowledge to improve its search and artificial intelligence projects.”
The world of search is about to be flipped completely on its head. As part of that sea change, today’s reactive Web-based searches are about to give way to proactive, geo-fenced answers that will pop up before you even frame the question.
In many cases, you won’t be searching for content – content will be searching for you via Forget Searching For Content – Content Is About To Start Searching For You – ReadWrite.
Even libraries need to consider SEO in order to improve their visibility to their target communities and users. A list of 11 free search engine optimization tools for beginners.
via Free Search Engine Optimization Tools | LimeIsBetter SEO Services.
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At this point, people probably associate the internet with wasting time more than they do with saving it. But as we get ever-lazier, we’re figuring out to use the internet to do things like connect garage doors to the internet, set temperature levels on fridges, do timed shut-downs on wireless routers and basically make it possible to control every element of domestic life from a phone app. All of these devices need to be on the internet to operate and Shodan – a privately developed search engine – has been busy sniffing them out.
via Is Shodan Really the World’s Most Dangerous Search Engine? | VICE UK.
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A Search Engine For The Internet Of Things | Fast Company | Business + Innovation – The Modern MLIS
The rise of the Internet of Things means billions of physical objects will soon generate massive amounts of data 24 hours a day. Not only will this make traditional search methods nearly impossible to use, it will also create an environment where instead of looking for things in the world, those things will be seeking us out to give us all sorts of information that will help us fix, use or buy them.
via How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search – ReadWrite.
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