Monday, October 11, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Dear Diary,
I was doing some research on the Google API today and found some very interesting things. After searching through the API for a bit to see if I could do a website lookup via the IP address I decided to switch my focus onto Dr. Trudel's suggestion.
Dr. Trudel originally suggested taking the first 30-40 characters of a website and using that as the base of our search. I did a bit of thinking on this and decided to try searching for websites by their Title block.
I spent an hour or so going through random webpages and running their Title block through Google, to my surprise every website I ran came up as the first hit on Googles search result.
Exact steps I followed:
1)Pick a random website: www.fonora.com (a website I found on the back of a textile package in my house)
2) Right click and hit "View Page Source"
3) Scroll through and copy the [title] section of the source code (I cant show the actual html representation of <> title on this blog)
4) Go to google.com and insert the title section.
5) Encase the title section in quotes
6) Search
I am going to generate a larger list of test cases and try all of them.
Until then,
Joseph O'Neill
I was doing some research on the Google API today and found some very interesting things. After searching through the API for a bit to see if I could do a website lookup via the IP address I decided to switch my focus onto Dr. Trudel's suggestion.
Dr. Trudel originally suggested taking the first 30-40 characters of a website and using that as the base of our search. I did a bit of thinking on this and decided to try searching for websites by their Title block.
I spent an hour or so going through random webpages and running their Title block through Google, to my surprise every website I ran came up as the first hit on Googles search result.
Exact steps I followed:
1)Pick a random website: www.fonora.com (a website I found on the back of a textile package in my house)
2) Right click and hit "View Page Source"
3) Scroll through and copy the [title] section of the source code (I cant show the actual html representation of <> title on this blog)
4) Go to google.com and insert the title section.
5) Encase the title section in quotes
6) Search
I am going to generate a larger list of test cases and try all of them.
Until then,
Joseph O'Neill
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Dear Diary,
I met with Dr. Benoit, Dr. Trudel and the other master students again yesterday. I was able to ask Dr. Benoit and Dr. Trudel what they thought about my research topic (Checking Googles Accuracy).
They raised some potential issues, but I still think that it is worth exploring. If I am able to actually get the data I am looking for from Google I could potentially end up with some very interesting results.
Things to be done:
1) Check Google's API to determine if there is a way to search via IP
Yours Always
Joseph O'Neill
I met with Dr. Benoit, Dr. Trudel and the other master students again yesterday. I was able to ask Dr. Benoit and Dr. Trudel what they thought about my research topic (Checking Googles Accuracy).
They raised some potential issues, but I still think that it is worth exploring. If I am able to actually get the data I am looking for from Google I could potentially end up with some very interesting results.
Things to be done:
1) Check Google's API to determine if there is a way to search via IP
Yours Always
Joseph O'Neill
Monday, October 4, 2010
Dear Diary,
I spent some time over the weekend looking at the topics I could use for my research. The one that caught my attention was checking the accuracy of Google. When I first asked about the possible research topics Dr. Benoit had mentioned this particular one but said there might be some difficulties.
Things to do for Wednesday:
1) More research on checking Google's accuracy
2)Discuss the possibility and any difficulties with Dr. Benoit and Dr. Trudel.
Always yours
Joseph O'Neill
I spent some time over the weekend looking at the topics I could use for my research. The one that caught my attention was checking the accuracy of Google. When I first asked about the possible research topics Dr. Benoit had mentioned this particular one but said there might be some difficulties.
Things to do for Wednesday:
1) More research on checking Google's accuracy
2)Discuss the possibility and any difficulties with Dr. Benoit and Dr. Trudel.
Always yours
Joseph O'Neill
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