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Monday, August 4, 2008

I remember the first 'search'-like engine when I was in university... back in '93 or so. It was called Archie (taken from the comics, dunno why). I wasn't very good at using Archie, nor understanding it. The net was without pictures back in those days... but then... I saw pictures on the net with NetScape... and then... there were some great search engines that sprung, like WebCrawler and Yahoo! (and I remember we used to have discussions on which site was better and would last... we all thought WebCrawler would be king... oh were we wrong)... then Google took over the planet... now Cuil is squeezing it's way in (...?). Probably not, who knows.

Ok, why am I talking about the history of the 'Search'? Because search is what the net is all about. Just try and imagine how much time you spend 'searching' for stuff on the net. With the net getting bigger by the nanosecond, it's both easier as well as harder to find what you're looking for.

And sometimes, it's never obvious... sometimes, new words or concepts sprung up as well, and we gotta follow these trends or be left behind. Take a great site like Flickr, you can spend all day browsing for 'more Bear photos'... but sometimes... it's the keywords and tags that are most important.

I like a new tag that I found... it's called 'DadSafari'. Not sure how long this word has been around nor who started it, yet it's comprised of photos of Bearish Dads... but it seems that these guys do not know their photo was taken. Ah the net is a voyeur's heaven, don't you find? Check it out, also check out the guys who've been posting their photos with this tag and you'll find even more Bearish photos... and if you find any cool 'search' tags, let me know... it's fun to follow the trend sometimes, even begin 'em.

ps - unrerated... whenever I goto Flickr, I'm always reminded of a 1999 movie called Election starring Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick. She made cupcakes with her name on it but the letters were capitalized, so it looked like FLICK... which of course looks like FUCK... I wonder if Flickr saw that movie as well.