Metadata addicts rejoice, Technorati has launched tag-based search and alerts. For more, read Dave's post here….
Interesting post on Traffick positing the theory that Google's AdSense "faces extinction" unless Google does something about it. The author notes that AdSense doesn't work so well for publishers with strong repeat audiences (I can attest to that), that click fraud is growing (I sure have proof of that…
UPDATE: Slashdot picks up this Newsweek article on click fraud, and my post above as well. Welcome, slashdotters, if you want to know more about Searchblog, head here.
Thanks to Doug Cutting, news of Filangy, a Nutch-based personal search engine that watches where you go and creates your own web index of sites you've seen (and incorporates general web search as well). It's still in early beta, you have to sign up to use it….
Thanks to Doug Cutting, news of Filangy, a Nutch-based personal search engine that watches where you go and creates your own web index of sites you’ve seen (and incorporates general web search as well). It’s still in early beta, you have to sign up to use it.
Notes on a BayCHI/PARC talk given by Google's Marissa Mayer are posted here. Thanks, Rick!….
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 MoreA 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.
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…
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.
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