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Carver Tate

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Hey everyone, I apologize if this is an inappropriate use of the FRIAM
list, but I am a little desperate right now. I am a graduate student
at the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown (I
interned at Red Fish over the summer). I am currently doing research
for my thesis on the discrepancy between the speed at which tools for
accessing information (Google, Wikipedia, Semantic Web, etc.) are
created and the speed at which information is created. There are two
concepts from Information Theory that I want to use in my thesis, but
am having trouble finding any good resources on. The first is the
idea of "Information Overload" and the other is "Search Metrics." If
any of you know of any books, papers, websites, etc. concerning either
of these topics I would appreciate it if you could let me know.
Thanks a lot!
- Carver

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Tom Johnson

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Carver:

How are you going to address the problem of defining when the tool is deemed
"created"? Seems to me that one of the great and wonderful aspects of the
Digital Revolution that that while companies or individuals may release
version 1.0 and 1.1, etc., the tool(s) are always in a dynamic state of
evolution.

Note, I'm not suggesting that your proposed research is impossible, but only
suggesting that you try to nail down a definition as you move into the
research, understanding, of course, that those definitions may well -- and
perhaps should -- change as you uncover more data.

-Tom

On Feb 6, 2008 10:58 AM, Carver Tate <carvertate at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone, I apologize if this is an inappropriate use of the FRIAM
> list, but I am a little desperate right now. I am a graduate student
> at the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown (I
> interned at Red Fish over the summer). I am currently doing research
> for my thesis on the discrepancy between the speed at which tools for
> accessing information (Google, Wikipedia, Semantic Web, etc.) are
> created and the speed at which information is created. There are two
> concepts from Information Theory that I want to use in my thesis, but
> am having trouble finding any good resources on. The first is the
> idea of "Information Overload" and the other is "Search Metrics." If
> any of you know of any books, papers, websites, etc. concerning either
> of these topics I would appreciate it if you could let me know.
> Thanks a lot!
> - Carver
>
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> "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." -
> Marshall McLuhan
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Joseph Dalessandro-2

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I worked in the early search engine space, and I know that most of the
engines keep detailed metrics. What do you mean by "search metrics."

Pick up the phone and call Google, I am sure they have several people
dedicated to metrics. The advertising sales department will certainly
have the data. Accurate metric data is critical to successful
advertising campaigns. Google cannot sell adwords unless they can
demonstrate how often the keyword is used. In addition, there are
companies selling advertising services online that will aggregate search
engine data, such as keyword usage, and analyze it against the "depth"
of page views on their clients website. So a search user who types "find
cheap mortgage rate" in a search engine has a value, and the search user
who types "mortgage" has a value, which is worth more to the client
buying the adword and which "keyword" is more expensive? If I can
correlate the cost of the adword when I buy it from Google, with the
"value" of the search user once they come to my clients site, I will
have a feedback loop for the success of the keyword campaign.

Hope this not completely off your mark.

//Joe

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:58:58 -0500, "Carver Tate" <carvertate at gmail.com>
said:

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