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Mechanical Turk (Mturk) is a Web service where users, turkers, are paid small rewards (few cents) for short computational task called HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks). A contractor generates the HITs, post them on Mturk and later download all the result.

TurKit is a Java/JavaScript API (developed by the User Interface Design Group at MIT) for running iterative tasks on Mechanical Turk. As of today, TurKit represents the first example of iterative tasks framework for Mturk, as it allows users to perform incremental tasks by automatically generating HITs based on the results of previous HITs.

Many applications can benefit from this iterative paradigm: turkers can take turns improving a passage of text, verify each other’s work by voting on it or implement the comparison function of an iterative sorting algorithm. In the context of SeCo, turkers can be employed, for instance,  to evaluate the quality of a query response.

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As an increasing number of organizations feels the need to open up their data for public usage, it also arises the need for tools able to unlock the intrinsic  value of such data. Following a trend that already saw the creation of a public data search feature, Google Lab just launched the Google Public Data Explorer, an experimental visualization tool.

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Microsoft Pivot

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Microsoft Live Labs recently launched  Pivot, a new tool to visually explore large sets of data. Gray Flake presented it at the latest TED Talk event.

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Google's new look

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Below you can pre-view the new look of Google. Click to enlarge

Googles new look

Google's new look

Read more: http://www.taranfx.com/blog/googles-new-design-with-caffeine

Do you like to try it yourself? read out how http://www.taranfx.com/blog/try-new-google-search-caffeine

retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. Currently the index contains many of Flickr’s most interesting images.

[Source systemone]

[Website http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/]

Have a website or collection of sites you’d like to search over? With Custom Search Engine, you can harness the power of Google to create a search engine tailored to your needs.

[Source Google]

[Website http://www.google.com/coop/cse/]

Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is a Yahoo! Developer Network initiative to provide an open search web services platform.

The main goal and idea of BOSS is to give users, in this case developer’s free access to the Yahoo! Search index. The results can be supplied into the developer’s website or program so that they can manipulate the resources according to their product’s requirements. BOSS allows the results to be returned back in XML, JSON, HTML, text and also allows the comprehensive search feature allowed in Yahoo like pulling the results by pages, searching inside PDF, etc. The ranking of the websites for a search term is same as the Yahoo! Search ranking since both of these are pulling from the same index and same ranking.

[Source Wikipedia]

[Website http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/]

SearchMonkey allows developers and site owners for making Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.

  • Technology analysis
    • Site owners are invited to make structured data available as Microformats, RSS, RDF or any data feed
    • Developers are invited to program SearchMonkey application that uses the structured data made available by site owners in making results more useful and visually appealing Final users are invited to add SearchMonkey applications to their Search Gallery in order to get more useful and visually appealing results
  • Business model analysis
    • site owners can gain more traffic for their sites, thus more visibility of their contents and selling advertisement spaces to a higher price.
    • developers can gain by offering consultancy services
    • Yahoo! gains in terms of traffic (thus higher price for sponsored links) more useful and visually appealing results

[Website http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/]

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