There is some new technology for searching shorter
posts, especially in social media sites, by looking at statistical correlations
of abbreviations and character strings that are common in tweets, texts and the
like. It is called “Apodora” and was designed by a Canadian high school student
Nicolas Schiefer and entered into science fairs. There is a story my Emily Jackson in “The
Globe and Mail” here.
Jack Andraka mentions it on p. 152 of his new book “Breakthrough”,
reviewed today on the Books blog.
Of course, short text content is much more likely to
be whitelisted or to have privacy controls to keep them away from search
engines.
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