Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

Google is updating its “about this result” feature for search results with an interesting new addition : context about how and why the company’s algorithm landed on the specific results for the links that it surfaces when you search for things. The updated results should be rolling out to users now.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

In nearly every Google algorithm update in recent memory, Google has rewarded old, megatraffic sites, sending their search rankings soaring at the expense of smaller, newer sites. Big sites have increased their search traffic by 28% year over year, according to GrowthBar ’s organic search data on the 100 most visited sites.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

Museums of all sizes have moved to digitize objects and place them on discrete webpages so visitors can easily get to the content they want through a Google search. When people want knowledge, their first stop might not be a search engine. It might be Wikipedia. But Google isn't the only way people access information on the Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Deep learning has made tremendous strides in recent years, with new systems and models like GPT-3 offering higher quality interpretations of human language, empowering developers to use these concepts in more diverse applications. So, for instance, you could Ctrl-F on a Wikipedia page and ask “Where did this person live?”

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Stanford AI Lab Blog

MAY 31, 2022

Language Model Pretraining Language models (LMs), like BERT 1 and the GPT series 2 , achieve remarkable performance on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. 3 These models serve important roles in products and tools that we use every day, such as search engines like Google 4 and personal assistants like Alexa 5.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

Wikipedia : In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose , sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest. What would their online searches look like? In this case, Wheels For Wishes would want their site to appear on the first page of search results for these terms. Donate my car”.

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The Next Web

MARCH 17, 2013

Even if you don’t rely on people typing your domain to get to you, they will need to search somewhere to find you. Arm yourself with a dictionary, a thesaurus, open up wikipedia, get some novels and start exploring. People will find out about you via word of mouth, so it’s essential to have a name that is easy to spread.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

But others may choose to customize the button to point toward other resources, like Wikipedia, Where to Watch information, a website, or parental guidance information. That makes it quicker to get to the information you want to see, without so much searching around and tapping.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We continued to grow open source datasets in 2022, for example, in natural language processing and vision, and expanded our global index of available datasets in Google Dataset Search. Data for each episode includes the RGB video, the robot's end-effector positions, and the natural language embedding. MGnify proteins A 2.4B-sequence

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

retrieving sports results in iOS 6; integrating Wikipedia in iOS 7; introducing ‘Hey, Siri’ in iOS 8), but also because the novelty has worn off. They began to offer more reliable dictation, better language understanding, and integration with third-party skills. Partly, this seems just because the changes are so small (e.g.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Shortly after career day he contacted Viji Dilip, head of Bookshare International, to see about an internship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.). According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” 4) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Enhancements. You're welcome.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Write the release in a straightforward manner, including relevant information with no sentimental language. Online sources like Wikipedia can help you find additional publications if you have a broad area. Search for the right person to contact as well as a general email for news tips. Avoid exclamation points.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

You can do Google searches by voice. It also does translations of foreign language signs and things you’re looking at. If you'd like to see what the world looks like through Google Glass, search in Google+ with the hashtag #throughglass. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. You can speak to send text messages.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But Wikipedia did this, and it was very successful. After all, summaries like these would be great in search engines or an algorithmically curated news site. “We’re seeing like 50 percent more pageviews,” said Shrager. It reduces the cost of exploration to the user.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. Inferring intent from search keywords. What percent of my traffic is from search engines? According to research, approximately 80% of web users use search engines to find sites. And, is it enough?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Image: Wikipedia. Wikipedia has been an integral part of web culture for nearly twenty years, letting users browse its millions of text-heavy, crowd-sourced encyclopedia entries from their computer, tablet, or phone. Image: Wikipedia. Image: Wikipedia. This will make it much easier to navigate longer pages!

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

No, it’s merely an autocomplete program, like the one in the Google search bar. The entirety of English Wikipedia constitutes just 0.6 It’s hard to estimate the total size, but we know that the entirety of the English Wikipedia, spanning some 6 million articles, makes up only 0.6 You start typing and it predicts what comes next.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

Somewhere in the midst of all that, Boston Dynamics demoed an improved bipedal robot, Wikipedia launched a redesign and major universities banned TikTok from their campus networks. Wikipedia gets a makeover: This week, Wikipedia, a resource used by billions every month, got its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade, Sarah writes.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

Daniel Chodowiecki/Wikipedia The Revolutionary Potential of the Digital Age The invention of the computerand more importantly the connecting of multiple computers across the globe via the internetsaw the arrival of another knowledge revolution. The printing press was invented in Germany around 1440.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In the demo, Ba said xAI said Grok 3 had been tested under the codename "chocolate" on the LMSYS leaderboard— a system for testing large language models (LLMs) — and claimed even early versions of Grok 3 were outperforming rivals like Gemini-2 Pro, DeepSeek-V3, Claude 3.5 using Deep Search, to which it generated the answer Feb.

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Engadget

MARCH 28, 2025

The screens frame rate cant handle gaming, but its good enough to show you the Wikipedia entry for Strivers Row while you read Crook Manifesto. Both Kindle and Kobo are brands of dedicated ereaders that support searching, buying, downloading and reading ebooks from their own stores. What's the difference between Kindle and Kobo?

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Googles image search, which is the other of the two built-in options to get answers from your iPhones camera, delivered slightly more helpful results for the wooden table I was looking at and where I could buy something similar. I pointed it at nearby plants and the very fashionable and hip sneakers I had on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

BeaconFire Consulting asks " What Language Can Your Bulk Email Too Speak ?" via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results. Extreme Email Makeover. " Another write up about Kiva.

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