What is the Direction for BorderObserver?

 

Picture Screenshot of Morelos Dam gate in Yuma Arizona, Newsnation/Ali Bradley

On 24 Feb 2021 and 23 Apr 2023, two blogs addressed the direction of #BorderObserver.

To recap, our goal has always been to build robots - for the southern border and other domestic tasks. At the time we noted that building robots would be put off for two (2) years. In the meantime, we've refocused several times, but always kept something going on twitter with @BorderObserver

The New Focus 

A year ago we realized that we made a product mistake with a database for press releases. The less than luke-warm welcome informed us that we missed the mark. The new focus has been a SEARCH ENGINE.

The Search Engine 

A common mistake by consumers is that Google or Bing are search engines. That is not the case for either. What both have done is collect common-internet connections and found the associated words that go with each connection. NEXT, and this is their key, both customize the results you see based on where YOU go.

What this means, is that you get more of the results you like and therefore use BOTH websites more. 

Yes, they both track how many times you visit, how times you come back and how many times you search for the same words.

In the end, BOTH become "convenience engines" and not "search engines." They both allow you to find things you've found before. You can think of them as "smart electronic bookmarkers."

In the end, you might have to spend hours looking for that story about

  • 40 migrants that lost their lives at a shelter in Mexico - right next to El Paso, Texas
  • Or 3 refugees from Myanmar that killed and ate a swan in upper state New York

How Our Search Engine Works 

Here are some technical details

  • Start with an RSS feed to each news website
  • Search the Title with a list of keywords and phrases
  • Sort the Title in the order you want to see (based on the news outlet)
  • Remove Titles are are off subject; like National Catlady Day  (google)
  • Upload webpage with Titles linked to the news outlets
  • Tweet no more than 28 Titles (with a hard limit of 35)
  • To limit tweeted Article, untweeted Articles will go on an #Overload_unload page

Many things in this blog need hyer-links.

Tomorrow I will add those links to everything, and add links to the keywords & news websites we search.

 Signed
@BorderObserver

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