A new study from Keynote shows gains for Yahoo and MSN over Google when it comes to various metrics of search engine usage. A write up from Chris over at SEW chews through it. Ask Jeeves also gained, Keynote says. I think this is pretty predictable – search has…
I think this is pretty predictable – search has been a very hot story for a year or two, and it’s starting to trickle down to the average consumer – hey, there’s more than one player out there! Also, MSN and Yahoo have made a lot of noise lately, and Ask has certainly gotten better.
I have not been able to review the actual study yet, but if/when i do, I’ll post more.
Two MediaPost Items: Online Ad Spend Could Grow By 30% in 2005 and Search Engine Marketing ROI Soared In Decemeber….
Google today launches the Google Mini search appliance, for enterprise search. Cnet coverage….
I'm a bit late to this, but there you have it. Exalead, a company that powers AOL France's search (I was introduced to its founder by Alta Vista founder Louis Monier – yup, he's French) announced today that its stand alone search engine has surpassed the 1-billion-pages-indexed mark. (The…
I’m a bit late to this, but there you have it. Exalead, a company that powers AOL France’s search (I was introduced to its founder by Alta Vista founder Louis Monier – yup, he’s French) announced today that its stand alone search engine has surpassed the 1-billion-pages-indexed mark. (The engine launched in October).
Why do I like it? Because when I do a vanity search, my interview with Richard Linklater and Douglas Coupland in Wired, way back in the mid 1990s, is the second result.
But seriously, it’s great to see yet another search play out there. Exalead’s CEO Francois Bourdoncle tells me that a desktop application is on the way, and the engine has all manner of neat features, including categories, bookmarks, related terms, thumbnails, and more.
Read MoreAs nearly everyone knows, Dan Gillmor has moved to the entrepreneurial world, and I'm tickled he's out here in the wild now, figuring out his next thing and just hanging it out and seeing what might come. Today there's news that he has been appointed a fellow at Stanford…
As nearly everyone knows, Dan Gillmor has moved to the entrepreneurial world, and I’m tickled he’s out here in the wild now, figuring out his next thing and just hanging it out and seeing what might come. Today there’s news that he has been appointed a fellow at Stanford Law’s Center for Internet & Society, and is organizing a conference on the idea of the citizen journalist. At the end of the day, I sense that the citizen journalist equates with my fundamental definition of a journalist, regardless of credentials: a person who both has the talent and the desire to report, investigate, question, and care about something that others in a community also care about. As an industry and over time, we may have forgotten this fundamental truth, but I see it every time I teach at Berkeley – students with an itch to communicate what they see, regardless of the outcome. Given the fall of icons such as CBS and the NYT, it’s a good thing that we can still honor such an impulse in our culture, and I look forward to seeing what Dan will do next.
A birdy with an abiding interest has told me that MSN, through its MyMSN service, will tonight "quietly launch several new features for MyMSN, one of which is the ability to discover, read and search through blog and RSS content." You will also be able to add RSS feeds…
A birdy with an abiding interest has told me that MSN, through its MyMSN service, will tonight “quietly launch several new features for MyMSN, one of which is the ability to discover, read and search through blog and RSS content.” You will also be able to add RSS feeds to your MyMSN page, just like MyYahoo. Innaresting, no?
Apparently this will be powered by Moreover.
Meanwhile, Dave Winer has launched a conversation about standardizing this whole RSS “Add to” clutter…for more, see here.
Daniel Brandt, Google's most relentless thorn, has released code which scrapes Google, sans ads. Techdirt covers it here. The Register (also a Google thorn) covers it here. Highlights: Brandt fully expects Google to throw legal and technical resources at him, but says he welcomes the challenge if only to…
Brandt fully expects Google to throw legal and technical resources at him, but says he welcomes the challenge if only to clarify copyright issues.
Google took people’s free stuff and made a $50 billion business from it, he argues.
Read MoreI like Mark Cuban's blog, it's a fun window into the sports world, but as we all know, Mark is also a big fan of search, having invested in both Mamma.com and IceRocket. So I was interested to read his latest rant on Randy Moss's silly (and fake) bare…
I like Mark Cuban’s blog, it’s a fun window into the sports world, but as we all know, Mark is also a big fan of search, having invested in both Mamma.com and IceRocket. So I was interested to read his latest rant on Randy Moss’s silly (and fake) bare ass in the playoff game last Sunday. In it, he dresses down the media for making a big deal of the incident, then talks about the search implications:
We are about to enter an era where kids can do a search on google, icerocket.com, yahoo and other search engines and get all the video they want of TV broadcasts. Put in a topic. Boom. All the video you could ever want. Put in a name. There it is. Video and transcripts to go with it.
How much fun is it going to be to be sitting in a Sports Management or Journalims class starting next year when the Prof discusses “dealing with controversy” or “dealing with players in the spotlight”, or any derivation of the topic.
Read MoreA long overdue props to Erik and Otis, the folks behind Lucene In Action, a recently completed book on the open source search app. Congrats to them both! From Erik's email to me, a cool approach to the ebook: Here's what the site is: a blog along with a…
A long overdue props to Erik and Otis, the folks behind Lucene In Action, a recently completed book on the open source search app. Congrats to them both!
From Erik’s email to me, a cool approach to the ebook:
Here’s what the site is: a blog along with a “search inside” the book feature. I indexed per-section the book contents. There are two indexes under the covers, one for the blog and another for the book. Searches are searching across both indexes, so you’ll see book snippets (though only partial content) and blog (full-content) highlighted with the terms you searched on. We’ve got cool plans to expand this (take *that* Amazon “search inside” and Google Print!).
Well, the embargo is off, and YDS has launched, or will Tuesday. Here's where to find it. (I think – it only works with the PC) Initial coverage here (Silicon Beat), and I am sure far more places will cover it as the day rolls on. Meanwhile, Blinkx' Mac…
Meanwhile, Blinkx’ Mac version is now out as well, I have downloaded the client and look forward to trying it out. It’s called an “0.5 beta” so if it erases my entire hard drive….
