Comments on: Scoble to MSFT: Buy Krugle http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/01/scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Mon, 20 May 2013 00:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: lipi http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/01/scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle.php#comment-11713 lipi Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:22:09 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/01/scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle.php#comment-11713 <p>Conspiracy theory: maybe those queries are meant to corrupt Google's info databases i.e. the answer to what are people searching for?</p> Conspiracy theory: maybe those queries are meant to corrupt Google’s info databases i.e. the answer to what are people searching for?

]]> By: Hashim http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/01/scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle.php#comment-11712 Hashim Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:18:16 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/01/scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle.php#comment-11712 <p>How does Krugle compare to Google Code Search:<br /> <a href="http://www.google.com/codesearch" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/codesearch</a></p> How does Krugle compare to Google Code Search:
http://www.google.com/codesearch

]]> By: Gerald Buckley http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/01/scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle.php#comment-11711 Gerald Buckley Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:36:42 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/01/scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle.php#comment-11711 <p>JG - Mr. Scoble also mentions his personal contact with the Windows development team and how they "ove Google because it was the best tool they had to look up stuff on MS own website. Nah, it's not the bot hordes.</p> <p>Mr. Battelle, I want to say a sincere Thank You for turning us onto Krugle back in November. It's been a BIG help to me and some of the folks that I passed the word onto. It is a testament to the power of vertical search.</p> <p>You guys are doing great!</p> JG – Mr. Scoble also mentions his personal contact with the Windows development team and how they “ove Google because it was the best tool they had to look up stuff on MS own website. Nah, it’s not the bot hordes.

Mr. Battelle, I want to say a sincere Thank You for turning us onto Krugle back in November. It’s been a BIG help to me and some of the folks that I passed the word onto. It is a testament to the power of vertical search.

You guys are doing great!

]]> By: JG http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/01/scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle.php#comment-11710 JG Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:29:16 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/01/scoble_to_msft_buy_krugle.php#comment-11710 <p><i>Hint: there’s not much in Redmond except for Microsoft. So, what are all those Microsofties doing on Google?</i></p> <p>Um, know thine enemy? Maybe all those searches are a cluster of MS bots, sending off hundreds of thousands of different searches to Google, to see how Google ranks things. It is a way of reverse engineering, or at least learning a good approximation to, a search algorithm. </p> Hint: there’s not much in Redmond except for Microsoft. So, what are all those Microsofties doing on Google?

Um, know thine enemy? Maybe all those searches are a cluster of MS bots, sending off hundreds of thousands of different searches to Google, to see how Google ranks things. It is a way of reverse engineering, or at least learning a good approximation to, a search algorithm.

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