Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Vanity search as art

Neat. Personas [Link]
Want to add a novel twist to your vanity searches? Personas is an art installation that turns a vanity search of your name in a spectrum of keywords associated with it. The end product, seen in the spectrum screenshot here, is interesting in its own right, but the most interesting part of Personas is watching it work. After you enter your name, you can see it crunching the text selections from the Google search results. If you have a name like Jason Fitzpatrick—both Jason and Fitzpatrick are extremely common names and nearly as common when linked together—your results will be a little muddled.
Interesting, and accurate.

2 comments:

Sean Conner said...

Accurate because of your unusual last name. For me? Apparently, I make a lousy Soviet, I'm headed on my second tour of duty overseas, and I play a lot of sports.

Sean Conner said...

Oh, and I'm also James Bond. Woot!

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