Search engine intelligence

In the blog before, I wrote that I would do another blog about search engines intelligence. At least, that was what I though about.

I think that most search engines, because I do not know all of them, do'nt perform real quality searches. In the results there is often pages, even among those listed on the top, that do not provide you with what you were looking for. I realize that It requires intelligence in regards of software technology to be able to do such a thing. But I think search engines will develop and I have thought that
even though most people think of Google, Yahoo and MSN as the market leading actors. Yes they are now, but I think that the market is quite open. Other actors would provide a service at least in niches to begin with and eventually the complexity of those search engines that are largest now, will follow.
Some of you remember Altavista, nowadays known by few below 20, and the very good search options that were available until 2000 something. You could include the standard logical parameters in a search but also search for words starting in a certain way like inter* . Today I am not aware of any search engine that provides that availability though I think it should be at least somewhere. If someone who reads know, please write a comment since I'm sure there are other readers who also want to know.

If you search on Yahoo, Google or any other you see that the results look different.
Yahoo give a closer approach from the serched word or phrase also to the domain name in the results than what Google does. But since Google wants to provide as quality verified results as possible, sites that are not linked to, have lower ranking even though they may have very good domain names. One reason to stand by this is because there are many good domains thata are only "parked" and have no content in them other than a bunch of ad links. These pages lower the quality on the internet but since this domain parking market is so huge, google have accepted it in way of at least indexing most parked pages though you rarely of close to never see them among the first hundreds (or even thousands?!) of search replies. A few years ago, I often saw parked pages in the replies but maybe I didn't use Google back then, not sure. But I don't think that Yathoo either include the parked pages in the top of results or even below.

But maybe yahoo has some more search intelligence because domains with domain names close or same as the search word or phrase are more included. You think that if anyone did a page or website with the same name, that it may very well have some info about what you are looking for. But to lastly credit Google, in the results in Yahoo, I think there is a little more of garbage content sites among the top results. So I use both of them.

I haven't used MSN that much in order to give a review but I will. Nor have I tried Ask or others.

When there is some spare time left...



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What new portable technology will come in the future?

Some of you, older than 30, remember the Sony walkman and all the other "copies", the whole portable cassette industry. Everybody had one, well almost everybody. (where are they now?) And the size of them got down to the size of a cassette, which is very similar to the size of a video screen on all these PVP, portable media player and whatever names they have.

Anyway, what will be developed in 5, 10 or 20 years. In 100 years?!!! Who imagined portable video players 30 years ago? Close to noone. So I guess there will come new things. But no matter how hard I try to think of what that will be, I don´t see anything. Well of course, portable computers with the same or better performance than todays desktop or laptop computers. Just a little box with a screen and micro keyboard with external connections to bigger screen and keyboard.

That will probably come in 5 to 10 years I think. And then?

Speed and memory size will increase further so with that, even more larger and complex programs will come. And what will these programs do? Interactivity is one
key and demand in the software industry. People look for things and therfor I write about search engines in the next blog.






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Fine Motor Skills

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In the last days I have read and thought about motor skills, an area divided into two ares, fine motor skills, like playing with lego, and gross motor skills as jumping around with friends in the woods.

Fine motor development may seem of bigger interest but since it depends on the gross development there is an interest for both. The reason is because there are children here and there, more than we think of that may have difficulties, movement disorders or other learning disabilities. Therefore many parents seek advice since they care for their child.

These children need extra support, need to feel joy and support even though they are not (yet) so very skilled which they may become in some way or another. Some children with special gifts aren´t like all other children first so with love and support they may show later on, how things can change, and how much they really have to give. In a way that wasn´t obvious first.

And since most people go through the "normal" learning process, they have more learning potential. Do you remember the feeling of fascination and exploring as a child, to find out about thing, doing things. Why not doing some of that again?
You can, pich any interest you would like to explore and give a chance. If you do it, you will see you can do new things again, it will make you feel better!

I am trying to collect material to write about in this field so hopefully I can get back to it in a short time.