It’s Thanksgiving weekend in the US… … and one of the things I’m thankful for was the chance to travel to such interesting places this year. It really was a great year of wandering-about. Although we’ve already had one Challenge about the Mediter…
Language is important… … although sometimes you’ll hear people say dismissively “it’s just word” or “it’s all just semantics,” they’re missing the point. Words, and the specific meanings of words, really DO matter. One of the interesting phenomen…
Congratulations to the semi-finalist teams! The 8 semi-finalist teams include 40 students and faculty mentors from 10 UMD colleges and schools.
We’ve just emerged… … from a long and difficult election season that was full of seemingly endless stream of articles about the candidates, their positions, where the culture is heading, and whether or not we should consider moving to Canada. One …
Sometimes SearchResearch Challenges are tough.. … then there are the ones that are delightfully straightforward, yet surprising. This week’s in in that category. Let’s take on each of the Challenges one at a time: 1. I found out, much to my sur…
Every so often, something goes very wrong… … and under certain circumstances, it not only can go wrong, but then keep the disaster going for years–and sometimes for centuries. This week, while reading something on a completely different topic, I …
This was an unusual Challenge. Remember that I asked: Can you find interesting and useful cases when a search includes an emoji or a special Unicode character? Say WHY you find this use case interesting. Here’s what I found as interesting search ca…
Maybe you’re wondering why this week’s post is so abysmally late…It probably won’t surprise you to find out that I’m traveling again. In fact, this is day 5 of a two week stretch of teaching and lecturing. I’m here, there, and everywhere giving cla…
Now that you can search for unicode characters and emoji… … what are you going to do with it? Today’s Challenge is simple, and it requires you to be slightly clever. Can you find interesting and useful cases when a search includes an emoji or a sp…
Welcome to SearchResearch post #900! Remarkably enough, we’ve somehow gotten from my first post on January 30, 2010 to this post, which is #900 in the series. First SRS post In that very first post, I wrote: _________________________Saturday, Januar…
This is a big question… And this caused me to do a lot of research over the past week. I did SO much that I’m a bit late in posting my answer. I’ll talk about this later in this post, but I wanted to let you know that I haven’t forgotten about th…
A few weeks ago… … my travels took me on a tour of the Greek islands. I don’t know why they weren’t on my bucket list before now, but they were such a beautiful place that I’ll definitely return in the future. It was that nice. On Santorini, the…
An important skill to have….. is that of knowing how to figure out who’s posting this article. In other words, a really important skill is that of being able to figure out who’s behind an article. Although this is something we should have learned i…
When I teach students….. about doing online research, one of things I tell them is to figure out who’s posting this article. In other words, find out who wrote it, and what their possible motivations for writing this particular article really are. …
Once upon a time……banks and lending institutions really wanted to make a pro-social mark in the landscape. To that end, they commissioned lots of public art, sometimes placing it in civic spaces (parks, city centers, etc.), but most often they enh…