I’ve been reading a bit about how the effectiveness of a search is measured and have thinking how we can apply it to our sourcing/internet research efforts. I kept coming across several terms which you all may have heard of, terms like precision, recall, and fall-out, which are the most common measurements of search effectiveness. After reading extensively on the subject all I got was a headache. : )

Here is what I took from this migraine generating study. As best as…

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For those of you who may be looking for sourcing tools. I did a highlight on the search engine "exalead" on my blog. I featured some of its unique commands. If your interested you can read it at http://www.sourcingcorner.com/2007/05/31/interesting-searching-thru-exalead/. If not, feel free to take a look anyway. I have some capuccino brewing today.

BTW, Slouch if you read…

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Since we are off to a new year I have been revisiting some of the search engines that had been introduced in the last year. As I did so and I became re-acquainted with SearchMash some of you may remember it, it was launched late 2006.

I ran some searches and It appears to have changed quite a bit from last year. Some great features still remain though. In case you didn't know this is a google testbed for new features…

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This morning I was re-visiting a search engine called Quintura. Some of you may have heard it before. It came out in late 2005. When it was first released I thought that it was cool but I thought it was just one of those ideas that in my mind was going to fade quickly. Since them Quitura has changed quite a bit and I can now honestly say that they won me over.

It is a great tool, check it out, Quintura…

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I will not immediately resort to quick searches…

Sometimes the temptation to take off running on your search (prior to finishing reading the job description) is just too overwhelming. This is especially true you are challenged to find “the…

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