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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Google Christmas Map 2007

As the official Google Blog reported, The Google Blog team created a map for users to customize and jointly create holiday greetings. I have made my mark... loud and clear :)

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Cheers and happy holidays from SML Universe

:)

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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Google Web History: See-ming Lee: Web Activity: 2005-2007 / 2007-12-04 / SML Data

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Screenshot / visualization of my web activity on Google from 2005 to 2007:

My hypothesis is that my Google search activity is:

1. inversely proportional to the number of production-heavy projects
2. proportional to the number of research-oriented projects

In fact, I think that it's likely that my projects would follow a heavy-search (research) start and then progressively go down the slope because I'd have to produce a lot of stuff so no time / no reason to search.

I shall find out when I map my time-sheets to this visualization :)

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Friday, November 9, 2007

Thoughts on Google Personalized Search Results

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I did some random Googling this morning and found that my initials SML is featured on page one again (Google: SML) which is sweet. However, I noted something interesting when I performed the same search at work.

In both cases, I was logged into Google account—which technically speaking should give me the same results. Well, apparently not. I did some screenshots so you can scrutinize it:

Home: SML Flickr: Google: SML / 2007-11-08 / SML Data

Work: SML Flickr: Google: SML / 2007-11-08 / SML Data

Noting this, I can't help but wonder if Google uses algorithms to randomize results a bit to test which links people would click on in various times—a strategy that I hypothesize is being used on Flickr to determine interestingness as well.

In turn, this suggests an interesting visualization exercise: what would the results pages look like if I search for the same thing over and over again by taking screenshots of the results page? It would be a kind of a SERP time-lapse, if you will. And if the data is available, all the merrier. It would surely be nice to see search results nodes moving at real time. Now I just need two more instances of SML working on these projects while I can still live my 24-hour day.

More random searches
Additional random searches that I like to do are Google: Google SML vs Google: SML Google, which gives different results. This means that Google's search algorithm give weights to the ordering of the words. By how much? I'll let you genius programmers find out. Feel free to email me your results when you do. I LOVE DATA!

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Monday, October 22, 2007

SML Google Maps / 2007-10-21T13:47-04:00 / SML

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SML Flickr: SML Google Maps / 2007-10-21T13:47-04:00 / SML

SML Google Maps / 2007-10-21T13:47-04:00 / SML, originally uploaded by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML.

SML Google Maps = See-ming Lee + Google Maps

All my Google Maps in one place. Handy!

My main map gets 1,141 views?! I guess people *really* like my address :)