Soure Distance Exercise

Device Critique - Politico-epistemological consequences
'Manufactured Significance' of Sources in 'Algorithmic Spaces'.

Assignment

Context

Which devices give what kind of importance to which sources for a certain query?

Method

1. Issue/Topic
2. Source selection
3. Device selection
4. Comparison of Source Placement Across Devices Per Issue

Findings

Implications

Devices

• Search engines / directories
  • Google
  • Yahoo and Yahoo Directory
  • Ask.com
  • Dmoz.org
  • Altavista
  • Live.com (msn.com)
  • list of Blog Search Engines
  • Technorati.com
  • Aol.com
  • Alexa.com
  • Mywebsearch.com
  • Alltheweb.com (part of ask.com)
  • lijit.com
  • Archive.org (Wayback Machine)
  • clusty.com
  • Lycos.com
  • search engine relationship chart
  • The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, July 2007
  • Exalead
• Usenet (there are issues with this)
• Wikipedia.org
• News
  • Nu.nl
  • News.google.com
  • digg
• Bookmark sites
  • Blink List
  • BlueDot?
  • ClipMarks?
  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • reddit
  • Stumble Upon
  • Listible.com (site list per topic with user ratings)
• Photo and Video
  • flickr
  • You Tube
  • Last.fm
  • images.google
  • news.google (images)
• Social Networks
  • LinkedIn?
  • Live Journal
  • My Space
  • Twitter
  • MyBlogLog?
  • Friendster.com
  • Facebook.com
• Events / location
  • Upcoming.org
• Time/trends
  • Google trends
  • Google Timeline View
  • blogpulse trend search and featured trends
  • technorati popular + technorati charts
• Google Suggest
• Translate
• Compare web engine rankings between msn, yahoo, google, altavista, ...
• Customize search engine
• News Tracker (Tool)
• Mashups
  • Search crystal
  • mashable
  • Programmableweb
  • Internetaddressbook
  • Unfluence
  • Tetonpost
• Code search

Results of the different groups

• Group 1 (Erik, Carolien, Marijn)
• Group 2 (Michelle, Sabine, Rosa)
• Group 3 (Laura, Bram, Richard)
• Group 4 (Jaswina, Michael, Anne)