Monday, September 20, 2010

People and Tools in the Digital Space by Kay Kelison

Guest Post: By Kay Kelison

Google rolled out a new search enhancement that shows results when you type, called Google Instant. While it’s true that this feature is innovative, one should question whether innovation equates to more relevant search results. In truth, there is no correlation between speed either quality or relevance of results. So, when you get the 10 blue links does the fact you got them faster mean the search and results were smarter? After all, Aesop warned us of the folly of relying purely on speed. Last year Bing’s search engine was tweaked to produce Real Live Search, which loaded full results pages as users typed. Stefan Weitz, Bing’s director, is featured in USA Today were he talks about how Bing is trying to do search smarter, and that faster doesn’t always equal smarter. He continues to explain that it’s a good thing to produce search results quickly, but that doesn’t always mean it is going to be the type of results that users are looking for thus not really saving them any time. Combining with Yahoo is helping them not only gain access to more information, but with the increase of information Bing can bring users more relevant results faster. “When you think about state-of-the-art searching, it should be less about searching and more about finding” says Weitz.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

one drink = M&B... Nope don't think so!!!

So what is up with people that want to be serious after one drink...

I seem to have this experience more often than not... one drink and we are walking down the isle getting married and cranking out babies... Um yeah, I feel that I am pretty open about where I am at emotionally.... destroyed, crushed and annihilated. I am a mess and well that is just how it is for right now. I just got out of a three year relationship with someone that I thought I would marry. Well not so much and of course without much of an explanation either.... my dumb ass should have been reading the signs but I was deluding myself into thinking that it was... (insert crazy chick excuses here). So now blogging about my experiences and how figuring out me and what I want... welcome the the journey that should have started.... um.... well when I popped out... I am a slow starter on the emotional stuff. Is it wrong to just want to be responsible to myself not have to worry about what someone else wants and just have fun without and pressure...

Another key point in this whole process... I recently relocated to Texas..... This will be a journey of self discovery, finding my backbone, getting healthy, expressing myself and growing the hell up!