Monday, April 07, 2008

Search Engines and Hair Pieces

Keeping on the Star Trek theme - Paul and I had a discussion about William Shatner and the issue of his potential hair piece. I think Shatner is sporting one - Paul disagrees. Well, I decided to use that topic as my search while testing out these different search engines. We'll see what the results conclude!

Keywords: william shatner hair piece

I liked how it has little screen shots of the websites. It has a similiar look and feel of Google - and the options of searching for images and even in Wikipedia! It brought up more than 5,000 websites with my keyword search. The first website was a discussion board with this topic at hand. Hair Loss Help Forums - William Shatner's Hair. Here are great pictures I gleaned from the site:


The majority is saying that he has had a hairpiece since Star Trek - maybe even during.

Clusty:

Once I typed in my search terms, I was little confused with the layout of the results. I then caught on with the purpose of the sidebar and the the included tags. Then I realized - it's a "cluster"! Well, unfortunately it brought up some junky websites for results. I did see a similar website: Emmy Nominee William Shatner Supporting Actor "Boston Legal"

William Shatner is nominated for 2005's Most Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series for his work as Denny Crane on ABC's "Boston Legal."

Seriously?

This was interesting:

"It's a question that I find like asking somebody, 'Did you have a breast implant?' or 'When did you get your lobotomy?'" -William Shatner when asked if he wore a hair piece.

So...does that mean yes?

Kartoo

This search engine was similar to Mooter and I'm not sure how I feel about it. They have these topic clusters - but what I liked about Kartoo was that it showed the connections of the search terms with little lines and when you scrolled over a link it would show a screen shot of site.

I found this great site: First Church of Shatnerology. Ok, it's not that great it actually really silly and hopefully not real - but it had some intriguing poetry about Shatner and his hair.

Take it off and turn around
Don't let it fall to the ground.

I worship you all the way down

I kiss the head on which you crown The sweet fragrance of your "hair" Do I dare? I want to kiss the head Of which I have no dread I see it there and want to die This in no lie! What is this wonderful thing for this which bells do ring? This for what my homage does pay Is none other than Shatner's toupee!

Ok, so after searching in these different search engines I haven't found a replacement for Google. I like how it's straight forward and user-friendly. Well, it's good to be more informed of what's available for our searching needs!

1 comments:

Pollywog said...

The First Church of Shatnerology? Nice. Really nice. ;D But yeah, I loved your post. Hilarious!!! Way to take a funny (and relevant) topic and find a way to make it work in library 2.0. Good job! I still maintain that "the Shat" is hairpiece free, but it's still interesting to see what "the research" shows. Oh, and I loved the Star Trek "Trouble with Tribbles" pic and caption. Good job Elizabeth!