Save Searchblog roundups and a post or two from Melanie, and my predictions post, which I hope to do this weekend, Searchblog will be quiet over the next ten days, as I take a holiday. See you in the New Year!…
Hitwise research reports that Google Blog Search passed Technorati in traffic for the first time last week. As a percentage of total US Internet Visit market share, Technorati moved to .0023%, and Google's Blog Search to .0025%. Google Blog Search has experienced massive growth since October, when a direct…
Google Blog Search has experienced massive growth since October, when a direct link to it was placed on Google News— to the detriment even of Blogger Blog Search, which slid from .0025% in October to .0019% last week.
Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble? Content-Based Image Retrieval Review and Cameraphone Search Aircraft Tracking and More Travel Info With FlightStats Mobile Compare and Contrast: 2 Conversations With Jeff Bezos (2006 and 2002) Yahoo India's Free SMS Backup Service…
Boing Boing covers the demotion of many popular sex related blogs in Google's ranking. This reminds me of the great Florida wipeout……
Google's Matt Cutts explains what I thought was going on. Yahoo lost views due to Ajax….
Ever wonder how I ended up doing what I do? Andrew Keen got me to open up in this interview, if you've got the inclination. I enjoyed speaking with him. I did the interview a few months ago so some of the references and stats are a bit dated….
Set up is here.
Om has the scoop from a Bloomberg report: Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology, the Chinese P2P video software company has confirmed that Google will become an investor in the company, according to a Bloomberg news report. Om had the original rumor, as well. Google.cn search for Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology….
Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology, the Chinese P2P video software company has confirmed that Google will become an investor in the company, according to a Bloomberg news report.
Om had the original rumor, as well.
Read MoreGoogle continues to test approaches to video ads, AdWeek reports on the beet.tv test which have been reported in the past. I was talking to someone today about Google and video ads. Besides tests like eepyBird and beet, Google is also buying inventory on some large, well known sites…
Reader Dr. Pete Writes: I'm reading too many comments that are calling this "human intelligence" and "wisdom of crowds" and contrasting that with Google. Isn't algorithmically encapsulating the wisdom of crowds exactly what Google did?…
Imagine if you will that you are on a journey through time and space. A journey into your own mind, a ….wait. It's not Friday, and it's also not JAM (that's Joints After Midnight) time yet. OK, then let's think out loud for a second about Google Health. Inspired…
Just as you now can fly over earth like some vicarious Superman, so, with Google Inner Space (not Jacob’s favorite name, but I kinda like it), you can fly inside of the very molecules which surround you – nay, inside of *our* very molecules. Want to see a map of a cancerous prostrate? Want to surf through an aorta, or pump through an adrenal gland? With Google Inner Space, you can.
All is information. And that includes information about who we are at the atomic, molecular, cellular, and organic level. This information can and will be displayed to you. Then we can tag, share, mix, and rip it. At least, it’d be cool if we could. What do you think, Adam?
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