The art of information searching in the open culture aera
fravia @ Milan, Linux Day
A deep and uncharted web: the volume of
information instantly accessible to you is so massive as
to be (almost)
incomprehensible. mi_growt.htm: The growth of the web
Few people know how to search, and even less know how to find
what they have searched for
Understanding how the web looks like is of paramount importance for a seeker mi_struc.htm: The structure of the web
Searchers after forbidden
knowledge haunt strange, far places,
beneath the scattered servers of forgotten sites
The information mass is overwhelming. To avoid drowning in the vast sea,
anyone navigating the web needs to know how to find (and use) all available tools and techniques.
milan3.htm: Searching, combing, klebing, hacking
The "largest" search engines cover (at best)
only a tiny part of the web. Moreover they DO NOT index the most interesting parts
of the web: they index commercial over educational sites, US sites over European sites
and 'popular' sites (read sites loved by the zombies) over relatively unknown
sites milan4.htm: The main search engines, some differences & some tricks
The importance of subsidiarity for seekers milan5.htm: where else to look: local / regional / usenet
The importance of reverse engineering and hacking techniques for seekers milan6.htm: Reversing algos, reversing software, reversing reality
Everything boils down to evaluation, zen-guessing and "nose" milan7.htm: Everyone and his dog puts biased info on line