Relevant Projects: "Methods"

"Methods" is an open source custom search engine project that intends to structure results  information in a way makes explicit  certain ideological bias in search results  


eg  for external produced over internal inherent methods.

for example:


a search on  "beauty" may  include cosmetics, health, cosmetic surgery, clothing, inner beauty,

once catagorised as


Inherent methods: exercise, inner beauty, meditation, yoga  would be placed  alongside

Manufactured  methods: fashion, cosmnetics, surgery etc

similarly as search on "safety" may yeild: armour, defense, weapons, police, martial arts, social harmony

Natural Methods: environmental balance, social harmony

Manufactured Methods: armour, defense, weapons

Hence exposing and rebalancing any current bias  in  for example google search...

other methods could include: "communication, power, knowledge" etc

(add current google positions)


there are issues about the simplicityof the catagorisation and the language but I feel these do not negate the basic point and potential of such a system



using
http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/context.html

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