ContentWho is feeling creative today?
I need a name for a new site. The name needs to be available on .com, .net, and .org and not trademarked or in common use.
The site is going to host a blog, a wiki, and a mailing list for search technology information.
I’ve been incredibly frustrated by the lack of solid public information on real search technology. If you do a search for anything “search” related on Google or Yahoo or MSN all you come up with is thousands of hits from the f*cking SEO “community.” So I want to start a public repository of articles and notes for the people that actually build search technology. We need to band together and share our knowledge.
A question I hear very frequently is “what books should I read on search technologies?” I even asked the same question at work and on Unto.net last year. While everyone recommends Managing Gigabytes, the real truth of the matter is that there isn’t that much out there beyond the academic papers and scattered transcripts and slides of lectures.
Thus I am going to start a site that lets us compile a encyclopedic knowledgebase on search technology. I’d like for the articles to be technical and relatively practical, along the lines of “Building A Vector Space Index” or “TFIDF Relevancy” or “Search Query Parsing” or “Search Term Stemming” or “Spam Query Detection” or “Stopping SEO Abuse” or “Real Time Index Merging”. The articles should range from covering the basics to the exploring the esoteric. Code snippets are strongly encouraged. Citations are mandatory. Let’s work together to make this a site for all of the people that work with search.
What do we call it? I first thought of “SearchTech” but that was taken. Please help me think of a name. IM me at ‘untonet’ on AIM or email me at ‘dewitt [at] unto [dot] net’ or leave a comment below if you can think of anything.
May 19th, 2006 at 8:48 am
That was odd. Since the category of this post was “search” the permalink was ambiguously resolved to send the request over to the WordPress search plugin. Sorry about that…
May 19th, 2006 at 8:49 am
BTW, I think “SearchTech” isn’t all that hot anyway. Another not-so-hot name I considered was “searchipedia”. Fortunately, those bastard domain name squatters got there first and saved us from being boring and cliche.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:05 am
For some reason everyone is emailing and IM’ing instead of commenting.
Here are some of the proposals. Anonymously, of course. I’ll post the name of the clever person if we find one we all like.
findstuffwithcomputers searcherdom zenofsearch releventest consearchium SearchIRTech
Also it sure sounds like people would like to see this happen. So please keep submitting names. Feel free to comment anonymously if you’d like…
May 19th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
I thought I had it: “searchgeeks”
But alas, that was taken, too. The .com by someone who doesn’t use it. And the .net by a 5-day domain squatter who will just release, get a refund, and renew. Seriously, the Internet has gone to hell and no one who cares seems to be able to do anything about it.
Nevermind, I didn’t like the name anyway.