He he. Chuckle, chuckle. Thanks to Kris and Brett for these pics. They ads are still there now when I search Google for used brain or black plague.
My question is: does eBay just submit bulk lists of terms they want to buy, or do they have a deal with Google to just link ‘em up [...]

Posted May 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: advertising, black plague, brain, brains, ebay, keyword advertising, keywords, plague, targeted, targeted advertising, used brain, used brains. 2 Comments.

I’m going out on a limb to say MySQL’s full-text indexing and searching features are underused. They appeared in MySQL 3.23.23 (most people are using 4.x, and 5 is in development), but it’s been news to most of the people I know.
Here’s the deal, the MATCH() function can search a full-text index for a string [...]

Posted September 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: boolean search, boolean searches, boolean searching, database, db, docs, documentation, full text, full text index, full text search, full text searching, fulltext, fulltext search, keywords, match(), mysql, rank, relevance, relevance rank, relevance ranked, relevance ranking, search, search full text. 8 Comments.

David Weinberger at Many-to-Many pointed me to Tom Coates’ post about different schools of thought regarding tags. Coates has been thinking about tags as keywords, annotations. Thats how I’ve been using and thinking about tags too, but some people have different ideas.
…At the end of the argument I said to Joshua that it was almost [...]

Posted July 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: annotating, annotations, culture war, david weinberger, folders, folksonomy, keywords, schools of thought, search, social search, tag, tag cloud, tagging, tags, taxonomy, tom coates, yahoo social search. One Comment.