Right. Now, we're obviously at Google, and here we do a lot of work towards digitizing things, and trying to put all the world's information online, and make it searchable , accessible, all that stuff. I've been thinking about hiring someone on TaskRabbit to scan them all, but I'm so nervous.
Messages, stories, experiences, sensory experiences-- so much about our past is not something that is documented, and definitely not easily searchable . Even more difficult, your personal perspective-- not the content you've consumed-- that could be saved-- but your interpretation of the content you've
And so it didn't require IRC, so it was easy for nontechnical people. They made it all searchable . They made it so that new company could configure it.
To illustrate how this has happened again throughout history, I want to go to 1851, my hometown, New York, It wasn't really searchable or findable by anyone.
So we're seeing lots of ways in which we can manifest our expertise and lots of ways in which we can actually make it more searchable to people. And by that, I'm referring now to the technologies of badges and digital badges.
Thankfully, there are Kindle versions of these books. They are searchable . You can highlight them and bookmark them. So I have a fully bookmarked set of the books to date, which have pretty much everything that has a major geographic piece of information in it
So that's the book and of course with it now comes eat, I wanna say, eatla.com, and now the book is completely searchable on the website which is really nice. And complete with Google maps. And let's see, what else have we got? Oh, and it is, if you have a smartphone it's,
The comic began when Google Books was at very early stages. And it was dumping the 19th century searchable online in a way that had never happened before. And that meant any random clown, such as me, could just type "Babbage", "Lovelace," into these search terms and turn up just sheer amounts of stuff.
And that's different. That's so different from how I think people people think. So, this idea of needing to be in public, what I tell newspapers and so on is that if you're not searchable , you will not be found. So, putting things behind the paywall, this this discussion right now in newspapers is driving me batty. They're talking again about doing micro payments and charging and and and and they don't get the cost that
so that you can find it easily and um you know like merth said there's a lot of information that's out there but a lot of it's not easily searchable a lot of it's not easily accessible and so we think that it should be not only there but reachable to regular people Meredith can I ask you to describe um some of the barriers and obstacles that uh that
to speak um you had a question so first of all seems to me that if this was released as a searchable DVD C be people well I think we should have a DVD version so we could actually make it kind of as a search engine you can kind
And so, to search the CRS, the FBI created something called the ACS in 1995, which more or less mirrors the CRS and is searchable . Between 1921 and 1995, there's essentially-- well, between 1921 and the early 1970s, there was no automated search capacity.
This is because ultimately, and what we could spend a long time talking about is the ways in which the internet is changing how we define expertise and how we make it searchable . If I asked you how many people in this room are on LinkedIn, I'm pretty sure every single hand would go up, right?
I'm going to ask you also-- and I am sure Google has a very well developed knowledge management system and HR databases that will tell you all about what peoples' skills are and make them searchable . And we have lots of that relate to the credentials that people have, but more importantly, also to the experience that people have
as well. It just basically gives us a new way to tell a story. Because we put so much work into the searchable data apps that we create, that they can't just stand for that one story.
speaks about this idea of information and what does the public have a right to know I had heard heard about project 57 and there was Li limited information about it um actually searchable through Google but I couldn't get any support supporting documentation and so I was at a library
government should have to ask our permission for hiding it from us and that if our information in the government our acts of the government the knowledge of the government we're all searchable and linkable what would that give us well it would give us the value of government brought back to us which is what really page rank does it Returns the wisdom of the crowd back to the people and it
PDF or static images you're looking at searchable text and Graphics um it's it's it's an almost unimaginable
- The Creative Passport, an identity in a searchable database for music makers to upload and share their information, everything you'd like to share about you as a music maker verified
So all the Tumor Cancer Genome Atlas that's publicly available is now searchable in the cBioPortal.
Unlike email, it's all searchable and archival.
writer you don't need to point out that this word is searchable and connects out to this the fact that it exists drives
CDROM with IBM that was the Playboy interview, searchable by subject with video and audio and text and photographs
basically what the gist of that bill was to take the website that we already have and to add more detail to it to deepen the amount of data that you can get to make it more easily searchable to strengthen the website generally um and so we have every intention of getting that bill reintroduced this year we are extremely excited about uh this
Building Council I you've written a little bit about how you'd like to do research into the various functions at a daily newspaper uh and sort of get a data from new sources the more the government data becomes open and searchable and we can all look at it and examine it the more that's part of a new
I don't make any money off it, but if you-- searchable by topic.
Read thousands of newspaper and magazine articles because there are companies now that digitize and their words searchable .
So in a forum kind of base, then it's searchable .
I think I don't want it to be easily-- I don't want pictures of child abuse to be available and searchable .
and the taxi drivers, and the stay-at-home moms, and the students, we should be able to do a better job of that. We have the data that does a much better job now of telling us what people know that makes that searchable to companies, to NGOs, and to governments in ways that we can make use of.
We're going to find out as we do it more. We're going to find out as more people volunteer to make themselves more findable and more searchable so that we can solve the problems that we face. Let me close by saying, we have to do this.
So you really need a fundamental way of trying adding aliases to beers so it could be searchable so that no more duplicates are in the system.
actually look at an entire newspaper advertising it all fully page composed it's also fully searchable so you're not only just you're not simply looking at
certainly 10 years, basically all art, at least of the Western canon, is online and searchable and available
Because even though there are 50 million archaeological sites I think around the world, there's 40 million square kilometers of searchable land.
Right? They're trying to make the internet a better place, more searchable , all that stuff, something like that, right?
You guys all work at Google, so you'll think this is pathetic, but, like, I didn't even know that you could tag blog posts to make them searchable .
And again, going back to the hotels, I've created a searchable database of hotels with accessible rooms.
Because when we received the data, we processed it like, OCRing it and making it searchable .
You talked there about summarizing information, and Google's always tried to make information accessible by making it searchable so you can access everything with the right search phrases.
So if I go to NYU and I get a degree, I now get a digital badge, which I can put on LinkedIn, or my website, et cetera, that makes my know how more searchable to people, allowing me to showcase my experience, my skills, my interests, my passions from a variety of different places, not just the place I went to school, but many different indicia of the way
We have to have the digital badges and credentialing systems that allow us to actually do a better job of finding expertise. So I've given you a bunch of examples, but we're just at the beginning of actually making searchable what people know. And companies like Google have been at the forefront, along with foundations like Lumina, trying to sponsor the creation of more liquid badging systems, skill
So thank you very much. The second way, I think, is as companies and employees of those companies make their skills and expertise more visible and searchable -- in other words,
So thank you very much. purposes, whether that's, again, making those skills searchable , giving people the time that it takes to do those tasks.
So if you're interested in learning more about some of these findings, we've created an online platform, the Gender Action Portal, which is searchable , where people can find out
Your memories are automatically backed up, always organized, and completely searchable .
Have you been able to collaborate with anybody to get any OCR technology so you can scan these documents and import them into a Unicode searchable index?
I'm collecting ideas. I think it's been incredibly powerful, and just being searchable , and the ads certainly are a huge part of how we market to our consumers.
Well, certainly the analogy isn't perfect in the sense that the internet is global, instant, searchable , and maybe, permanent.
That's the closest thing, in a way, to what Napster had in that it's a searchable database.