{"id":237,"date":"2008-05-09T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-05-09T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T00:08:00","slug":"non-english-blog-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/non-english-blog-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-English blog roundup #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deakialli DokuMental<\/a> (Spanish) writes about navigation and filtering with tags – also discusses facets. “What is the problem? That description and navigation are different concepts.” This post made me think about searching using social bookmarking sites. I use Diigo<\/a> which only has an AND search – as far as I can tell (and I hunted a bit) there’s no way to do even an NOT or OR search. Del.icio.us<\/a> has a few advanced search options<\/a>, but still no truncation search. As far as I know, there’s no reason this couldn’t be done, and it would make a search for “blog OR blogs OR blogging” much easier.<\/p>\n

Documentalistes<\/a> (Catalan) briefly evaluates Google Image Ripper<\/a>, a site where you can type in your image search and it brings up the full-size images instead of the thumbnails. I note that it doesn’t solve the duplication problem: it would be Really Cool if a search for “madame de lafayette”<\/a> didn’t include both images #1 and #5 which are identical. (Literally: Answers.com took it straight off Wikimedia. Some kind of pixel-by-pixel matching algorithm? Yes, yes, strain on the server and would slow down the results. Still.)<\/p>\n

DosPuntoCero<\/a> (Spanish) talks about some surveys described in the book “Libraries and the Mega-Internet Sites” (ISBN: 1-57440-096-7) The blog has pretty bar graphs for<\/p>\n