Google is a minority owner of Baidu, the #2 search engine in China. Today the FT reported that it will seek a listing on the US market….
It could if it wanted to. More likely, it could offer domain registration as part of another service. I've speculated in the past on what those services might be. Thanks to reader Nick Douglas who pointed this out….
Thanks to reader Nick Douglas who pointed this out.
Microsoft is taking its homegrown engine outta beta and going live today, adding a few neat bells and whistles along the way. I was under embargo till 9 pm tonight, but come on, the NYT is reporting it already. I can't offer a reasonable review of the site out…
Microsoft is taking its homegrown engine outta beta and going live today, adding a few neat bells and whistles along the way. I was under embargo till 9 pm tonight, but come on, the NYT is reporting it already.
I can’t offer a reasonable review of the site out of the box, but a list of the new features is at least a start:
– Even more focus on “answers” via Encarta Premium content, which is now free (well, for first use anyway. The engine has added more Encarta content in general).
– Support for RSS search feeds.
– New design, and incorporation into all of MSN, the Messenger IM client, and the MSN Toolbar.
So asks Craig Silverstein, my favorite JAM* quotemiester, in this FT article. "It's clear that a list of links, though very useful, doesn't match the way people give information to each other," says Mr Silverstein. The question that he says Google – like others – is now trying to…
“It’s clear that a list of links, though very useful, doesn’t match the way people give information to each other,” says Mr Silverstein. The question that he says Google – like others – is now trying to address is: “How can the computer become more like your friend when answering your questions?”
That means giving direct answers to questions, extracting data from online sources rather than giving links to web pages. It also means doing a better job of divining what the searcher is looking for, tailoring results more closely to what, based on past experience, appear to be the user’s particular interests.
Read MoreFark is having a Google photoshop hack contest. These are priceless. (thanks, Rick!)…
Thanks to Ross Mayfield for pointing this one out to me – a meta directory search engine….
The ever wonderful Steven Johnson riffs in the NYT about a tool he's been using for a few years in his writing, one that we probably all wish we had. The raw material the software relies on is an archive of my writings and notes, plus a few thousand…
The ever wonderful Steven Johnson riffs in the NYT about a tool he’s been using for a few years in his writing, one that we probably all wish we had.
The raw material the software relies on is an archive of my writings and notes, plus a few thousand choice quotes from books I have read over the past decade: an archive, in other words, of all my old ideas, and the ideas that have influenced me….
…The other day I ran a search that included the word ”sewage” several times. Because the software knows the word ”waste” is often used alongside ”sewage” it directed me to a quote that explained the way bones evolved in vertebrate bodies: by repurposing the calcium waste products created by the metabolism of cells.
Man. Traveling for 28 hours straight, then staying up two nights in a row for a best friend's 40th can certainly get in the way of work. But I'm back, and much to report. I'll be chewing through old news over the next day or so, but honestly, won't…
I’ll be chewing through old news over the next day or so, but honestly, won’t report much of it, as my book is due very shortly and I have another, final chapter to finish. However, a few things to note.
Cnet reports from a Harvard conference. Quote: ” “Google led the way in clarity in advertising,” said Mark Kroese, general manager of information services at Microsoft’s MSN. “We weren’t separating results (from ads) a year and a half ago, and since we’ve begun doing so, the response from both users and advertisers has been huge. Google proved that if you have clarity, people respond.””
Read MoreDetails here and here. More when I get back….
Interesting – search for business professionals…Here's my search. I had no idea….
