Comments on: del.icio.us + google would be nice http://blog.semergence.com/2006/07/21/delicious-google-would-be-nice/ Seth Ladd's blog about Ruby on Rails and crunching data. Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:52:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Gareth Andrew http://blog.semergence.com/2006/07/21/delicious-google-would-be-nice/#comment-126 Gareth Andrew Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:04:46 +0000 http://204.14.242.104/?p=520#comment-126 The best greasemonkey-script I could find is http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4855 (I updated the original as it was borked). This gm-script isn't really ideal. I think the biggest problem integrating google and delicious is that you don't search them in the same way. Google has a powerful index (which is not only full-text but incorporates extremely clever analysis algorithms), whereas del.icio.us search is very simple (covering only tags, titles and description) but has the advantage that its organisation is very explicit so I can craft my search terms more carefully (ie. I generally search delicious using tag names that I know I have used), del.icio.us also has a much higher signal-to-noise ratio. To get the greatest benefit out of merging these services it would have to be done at the indexing/analysis level and is out-of-bounds for the normal hacker. However, since yahoo owns del.icio.us and operates a search engine I can't imagine having to wait too long for it to happen. The best greasemonkey-script I could find is http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4855 (I updated the original as it was borked).

This gm-script isn’t really ideal.
I think the biggest problem integrating google and delicious is that you don’t search them in the same way. Google has a powerful index (which is not only full-text but incorporates extremely clever analysis algorithms), whereas del.icio.us search is very simple (covering only tags, titles and description) but has the advantage that its organisation is very explicit so I can craft my search terms more carefully (ie. I generally search delicious using tag names that I know I have used), del.icio.us also has a much higher signal-to-noise ratio.

To get the greatest benefit out of merging these services it would have to be done at the indexing/analysis level and is out-of-bounds for the normal hacker.
However, since yahoo owns del.icio.us and operates a search engine I can’t imagine having to wait too long for it to happen.

]]> By: dibau naum h http://blog.semergence.com/2006/07/21/delicious-google-would-be-nice/#comment-125 dibau naum h Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:13:00 +0000 http://204.14.242.104/?p=520#comment-125 +1 You should check existing plug-ins & greasemonkey scripts, but I'm not sure a satisfactory solution exists. Direc.tor is the ultimate del.icio.us search mechanism, once you've decided to search your library. But the problem I think is also in a larger scale: so much quality metadata on the web was aggregated by del.icio.us users, that a mere statistical web search isn't good enough without it. Do you have any ideas on how to come up with a web search service utilizing all this metadata? Is there such service already? 10x, dibau +1

You should check existing plug-ins & greasemonkey scripts, but I’m not sure a satisfactory solution exists. Direc.tor is the ultimate del.icio.us search mechanism, once you’ve decided to search your library.
But the problem I think is also in a larger scale: so much quality metadata on the web was aggregated by del.icio.us users, that a mere statistical web search isn’t good enough without it. Do you have any ideas on how to come up with a web search service utilizing all this metadata? Is there such service already?

10x,
dibau

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