This movie is thought provoking. The Database of Intentions gone wild. Too bad at the end, the page doesn't resolve….
GOOG is not doing well after releasing earnings. AP is calling it an "earnings miss." Google reported adjusted earnings of $1.54 per share, well below Wall Street's forecast for $1.76 per share, even though it brought in higher revenue than expected. Google shares were halted for the early part…
Google reported adjusted earnings of $1.54 per share, well below Wall Street’s forecast for $1.76 per share, even though it brought in higher revenue than expected.
"Did anyone else notice that installing Google's new toolbar automatically, and without asking or noting, removed their Alexa toolbar?…"…
"Did anyone else notice that installing Google's new toolbar automatically, and without asking or noting, removed their Alexa toolbar?…"
Hey Searchbloggers – Thanks to FM's team of coders, I've installed a new feature, one I have always wanted to have. I'm calling it "Recent Comment Spotlight." It's up there on the left at the top. I read every single comment you all put on the site (including the…
From BizWeek: Shares of Napster Inc. skyrocketed in premarket electronic trading Tuesday, as investors responded to a report that the online music store is being eyed by Google Inc. The Internet search giant, which is due to report fouorth-quarter results after the bell Tuesday, is considering an "extensive alliance"…
From BizWeek:
Shares of Napster Inc. skyrocketed in premarket electronic trading Tuesday, as investors responded to a report that the online music store is being eyed by Google Inc.
The Internet search giant, which is due to report fouorth-quarter results after the bell Tuesday, is considering an “extensive alliance” with, or possibly a takeover of, Napster, according to a published report.
Read MoreSpotted on Digg: The URL sharelive.com resolves to Google (www.sharelive.com/forums/ also resolves to Google, though to a non working page.) Odd, in that ShareLive used to be a file sharing site. From the Internet Archive: August 2002, June 2004, (something called oZone), Feb 2005 (back to ShareLive). Nothing after…
We asked Microsoft last week at Search Champs to show us the data, even if under NDA, and they informed us they couldn't……..
We asked Microsoft last week at Search Champs to show us the data, even if under NDA, and they informed us they couldn't…..
A while back I had the opportunity to speak with the folks behind Nexidia, a company that takes a unique approach to solving the audio (and by extension video) search problem. Gary has briefly grokked Nexidia in the past, but this was my first chance to dig in and…
A while back I had the opportunity to speak with the folks behind Nexidia, a company that takes a unique approach to solving the audio (and by extension video) search problem. Gary has briefly grokked Nexidia in the past, but this was my first chance to dig in and see what they have to offer. In short, it’s pretty cool, and the implications, should the company scale and get access to large datasets (ie become a consumer property or inform one), are significant.
I spoke with Nexidia’s SVP/Media, Drew Lanham. He told me Nexidia is already a profitable company, due in large part to its call center business. For that segment of the market, Nexidia provides audio mining technology that allows companies to identify patterns in customer contact, for example, and design better customer interactions (are you listening, Dell?).
Most stuff I’ve seen about audio and video search uses either text (ie closed caption) or tagging and metadata as a solution. So how does Nexidia work? In short, the company’s technology reduces speech to phonemes, the most basic unit of language, and uses those base units in much the same way that a text engine uses words. This approach is not novel, but Nexidia has apparently figured out a tack that not only works, it also scales, which is critical to the problem at hand. From Drew’s follow up notes to me:
Read MoreFrom Kottke: In 2002, Dave Winer of Scripting News and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times made a Long Bet about the authority of weblogs versus that of NY Times in Google: In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of…
In 2002, Dave Winer of Scripting News and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times made a Long Bet about the authority of weblogs versus that of NY Times in Google:
In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.
Read MoreKanoodle is pleased to report it has snagged MSN Spaces as a text link ads partner. What this brings up for me is the question "Yeah, but for how long?" I've asked MSN before about its intentions to get into the syndication space (ie, to do YPN or AdSense)….
