Comments on: An Emotional Grasp of the Google Search Algorithm http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:33:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Parallel Baidu Google Searches - Pop Occulture http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-84933 Parallel Baidu Google Searches - Pop Occulture Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:04:14 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-84933 [...] Google and I have become friends (for the most part). We understand each other. The pretty little Google algorithm knows I use my website to store information that is important to me, which I often go back, retrieve and build on. So it tailors the results it shows me to make my website look more important (be listed more prominently) for me, than it may for someone who has very different usage patterns. [...] [...] Google and I have become friends (for the most part). We understand each other. The pretty little Google algorithm knows I use my website to store information that is important to me, which I often go back, retrieve and build on. So it tailors the results it shows me to make my website look more important (be listed more prominently) for me, than it may for someone who has very different usage patterns. [...]

]]> By: Creatively Escaping Money - Pop Occulture http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-83758 Creatively Escaping Money - Pop Occulture Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:34:21 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-83758 [...] Remember how I wrote that I was trying to gain “an emotional grasp of the Google search algorithm“? Well, I have done that. And then some. Central to that experiment has been probing spambots to see how they operate and how the two layers of internet data meet and clash. It’s difficult for me to distill down into words exactly at this point, but through this research I have learned a hell of a lot, which I am now actively trying to put to use. [...] [...] Remember how I wrote that I was trying to gain “an emotional grasp of the Google search algorithm“? Well, I have done that. And then some. Central to that experiment has been probing spambots to see how they operate and how the two layers of internet data meet and clash. It’s difficult for me to distill down into words exactly at this point, but through this research I have learned a hell of a lot, which I am now actively trying to put to use. [...]

]]> By: speedbird http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-30688 speedbird Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:19:14 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-30688 > The idea that I am a replicable pattern of information ... Not sure I buy this one, personally. Replicable with errors, maybe. Which I think is different. Better, even. > Maybe every generation feels this at some point, but it seems to me that we are approaching the Imperative. ... Ahh, that 1914 feel... strange times, perhaps. I too get the feeling these are times of change. As for the 'boss'... a creature of our imaginations, but that doesn't diminish it's potential power. Perhaps the change will be an unmasking. > The idea that I am a replicable pattern of information …

Not sure I buy this one, personally. Replicable with errors, maybe. Which I think is different. Better, even.

> Maybe every generation feels this at some point, but it seems to me that we are approaching the Imperative. …

Ahh, that 1914 feel… strange times, perhaps. I too get the feeling these are times of change. As for the ‘boss’… a creature of our imaginations, but that doesn’t diminish it’s potential power. Perhaps the change will be an unmasking.

]]> By: aditi tahiti http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-30588 aditi tahiti Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:23:39 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-30588 pick up a copy of "programming and metaprogramming in the human biocomputer" by john lilly pick up a copy of “programming and metaprogramming in the human biocomputer” by john lilly

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-30548 Tim Boucher Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:21:10 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-30548 <blockquote>Who knows… perhaps the new boss really is the same as the old boss.</blockquote> What the fuck boss? I don't see any fucking boss

Who knows… perhaps the new boss really is the same as the old boss.

What the fuck boss? I don’t see any fucking boss

]]> By: fuj http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-30526 fuj Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:04:21 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-30526 Potentially therapeutic thought experiment for those of us who, like Tim, seem completely <em>stuck</em> in this linguistic trap called post-modern culture... pretend for a minute that you are a nomad living in the desert, maybe 3000 years ago or so. Imagine that you know absolutely nothing about any of the brain-bending shit we have our minds on lately. Even the word "mind" is meaningless to you. What changes in your experience? What is important? What is real? Not quite related to the blog (sorry), but here's a really excellent new <a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2006/12dec/RICR-061221-mtsarion.mp3" rel="nofollow">Tsarion interview</a> mp3 on authentic living I wanted to share (not his usual stuff). Potentially therapeutic thought experiment for those of us who, like Tim, seem completely stuck in this linguistic trap called post-modern culture… pretend for a minute that you are a nomad living in the desert, maybe 3000 years ago or so. Imagine that you know absolutely nothing about any of the brain-bending shit we have our minds on lately. Even the word “mind” is meaningless to you. What changes in your experience? What is important? What is real?

Not quite related to the blog (sorry), but here’s a really excellent new Tsarion interview mp3 on authentic living I wanted to share (not his usual stuff).

]]> By: The Word http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-30514 The Word Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:25:37 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-30514 All this shit is amazing. Tim's recent writing is amazing. Sychronicities, who knows? But does anyone else feel like they are walking a razor's edge with meltdown on one side and breakthrough on the other? Meltdown/breakthrough --- same destination, different ways of getting there? Maybe every generation feels this at some point, but it seems to me that we are approaching the <em>Imperative</em>. Who knows... perhaps the new boss really is the same as the old boss. But I don't want to believe that. All this shit is amazing. Tim’s recent writing is amazing. Sychronicities, who knows? But does anyone else feel like they are walking a razor’s edge with meltdown on one side and breakthrough on the other? Meltdown/breakthrough — same destination, different ways of getting there?
Maybe every generation feels this at some point, but it seems to me that we are approaching the Imperative.
Who knows… perhaps the new boss really is the same as the old boss. But I don’t want to believe that.

]]> By: Sketchmonkey http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-30468 Sketchmonkey Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:30:16 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-30468 I'm in the midst of reading, for the first time, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts" rel="nofollow">Alan Watts</a>' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-Taboo-Against-Knowing-Who/dp/0679723005/sr=8-1/qid=1167599803/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5001577-4287915?ie=UTF8&s=books" rel="nofollow">The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are</a>, which has proven to be a very timely bit of reading. Ever had a chance to read it? If so, I'm curious as to your take on it. If not... I have to say its a tidey bit of thinking that deals with some of the very questions you appear to be grappling with. Quick read, deep & to the point... which is to say, <em>very</em> Alan Watts<em>-ish.</em> Perhaps this would be a good counterpoint to the PKD-variety of paranoia & circular questioning. Not that there is anything wrong with that. ;) I’m in the midst of reading, for the first time, Alan Watts‘ The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, which has proven to be a very timely bit of reading. Ever had a chance to read it? If so, I’m curious as to your take on it. If not… I have to say its a tidey bit of thinking that deals with some of the very questions you appear to be grappling with. Quick read, deep & to the point… which is to say, very Alan Watts-ish. Perhaps this would be a good counterpoint to the PKD-variety of paranoia & circular questioning. Not that there is anything wrong with that. ;)

]]> By: JEmerson http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-30467 JEmerson Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:45:41 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-30467 I almost wish I had not loaded this up, as it's a topic near and dear to me, and I'm currently on PDA as sole web access. But, in any case, the idea of ai and feeling or consciousness is one of my favourite. Also one of the reasons I love cognitive science as the framework for ai research. Makes the heresy of possible allgorythm anthromorphism less a crime. Blackmoore's cog.sci. textbook has some really nice discussions on the subject of ai feeling, though from a totally theoretical rather than practical base. I almost wish I had not loaded this up, as it’s a topic near and dear to me, and I’m currently on PDA as sole web access. But, in any case, the idea of ai and feeling or consciousness is one of my favourite. Also one of the reasons I love cognitive science as the framework for ai research. Makes the heresy of possible allgorythm anthromorphism less a crime. Blackmoore’s cog.sci. textbook has some really nice discussions on the subject of ai feeling, though from a totally theoretical rather than practical base.

]]> By: Al Billings http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/comment-page-1/#comment-30466 Al Billings Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:04:39 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/31/an-emotional-understanding-of-the-google-search-algorithm/#comment-30466 A head for you: http://www.johncoulthart.com/pantechnicon/salome.html A head for you: http://www.johncoulthart.com/pantechnicon/salome.html

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