Thanks to Seth and the team at Majestic for allowing me to post these numbers. According to their research, about 1.3 million unique users visited Google's Desktop Search page in the first two weeks of its release, with nearly half (640,000) downloading the application. Majestic also breaks out international numbers…
Thanks to Seth and the team at Majestic for allowing me to post these numbers. According to their research, about 1.3 million unique users visited Google’s Desktop Search page in the first two weeks of its release, with nearly half (640,000) downloading the application. Majestic also breaks out international numbers in its report, shown on this accompanying graph (click on it to enlarge it).
(Data from Comscore, a Majestic partner.)
I'm traveling to NYC for one night only, then we have 22 family members (!!!!) for Thanksgiving starting Tuesday, so I sense this may be a light week of posting. While I'm out, here's some suggested linkage, which should keep you busy for a while if you don' t…
While I’m out, here’s some suggested linkage, which should keep you busy for a while if you don’ t have a turkey to brine:
Cory on WIPO. He’s doing important work here.
Read MoreGreg has the details on the ongoing improvements underway at Findory. From his post: A couple weeks ago, Findory launched search history for web, news, and blog search. As I've said before, search history is not personalized search. This week, Findory took our first step toward true personalized web search….
Greg has the details on the ongoing improvements underway at Findory. From his post:
A couple weeks ago, Findory launched search history for web, news, and blog search. As I’ve said before, search history is not personalized search.
This week, Findory took our first step toward true personalized web search. In subtle and small ways, we are starting to modify web search results based on your history at Findory.com.
Read MoreJust got this note from Google PR on the beta introduction of the Google Deskbar API. Today, Google announced the availability of the Google Deskbar API (application programming interface). This technology makes it possible for software developers to build their own features, or plug-ins, for the popular Google Deskbar. For…
Today, Google announced the availability of the Google Deskbar API
(application programming interface). This technology makes it possible for
software developers to build their own features, or plug-ins, for the
popular Google Deskbar.
For instance, a developer could use Google Deskbar APIs to create a movie
search command that enables users to search their favorite movie site by
entering a movie name into the Deskbar search field and typing a special
command such as “Ctrl’M.” Other examples include:
…Empower. This is getting old, but I did predict it…. First line of the release: "Move over, Google … a new player is giving you a run for your high-speed money." The claims continue: "The service, built on a platform that produces results almost four times faster than Yahoo.com, 11…
First line of the release:
“Move over, Google … a new player is giving you a run for your high-speed money.”
Read MoreMary Hodder has the goods….PubSub is monitoring more than 6.5 million blogs, about half of them active…….
Mary Hodder has the goods….PubSub is monitoring more than 6.5 million blogs, about half of them active….
I got an odd email from orkut yesterday, as did many others. It reads: Dear John, Today all of us here at orkut are pleased to announce the launch of orkut media, a weekly collection of writings and photos by our very own orkut members. When you land at http://media.orkut.com,…
I got an odd email from orkut yesterday, as did many others. It reads:
Dear John,
Today all of us here at orkut are pleased to announce the
launch of orkut media, a weekly collection of writings and
photos by our very own orkut members.
Microsoft and Overture have extended their contract, giving those who are waiting for Microsoft to roll out its Adwords competitor a clearer sense of when that service might roll out. The new contract is extended to June, 2006 – a one year extension….
Google has, for some time, had a few verticalized, niche search solutions hidden in their Advanced Search areas, notably their "topic specific" search around Linux, the Mac, govt sites, and the like. Today the company launched another, more ambitious vertical search tool called Google Scholar. According to folks I spoke…
Google has, for some time, had a few verticalized, niche search solutions hidden in their Advanced Search areas, notably their “topic specific” search around Linux, the Mac, govt sites, and the like. Today the company launched another, more ambitious vertical search tool called Google Scholar. According to folks I spoke to last night at Google, the service was done by one engineer in his “20% time.” Anurag Acharya, the engineer behind the service, tuned Google’s crawler for academic papers and worked with universities to make those papers available to others on the web.
The services has the tagline “Stand on the shoulders of giants.” It includes a cross referenced citation link for each paper, which is very cool, and as we all know, the basis of PageRank (and the WWW) in the first place. Here’s a search for vertical or domain specific search, for example.
This move marks a trend toward making usually invisible (and useful) information more accessible, one that I could imagine spreads to other domains, perhaps ones more commercial in nature. (Scholar does not have ads in it, at least for now). The special ranking algorithm and policies for dealing with the nature of a structured document universe such as this clearly scales to other opportunities – ie, travel, automotive, business information and the like.
Read MoreThe founder of RealNames, which rose and fell with the fortunes of the bubble and Microsoft back in the late 90s, has regained his domain, launched a limited search engine, and has plans for more…..here's and excerpt from his blog… have recently reaquired the RealNames domain name – realnames.com….
The founder of RealNames, which rose and fell with the fortunes of the bubble and Microsoft back in the late 90s, has regained his domain, launched a limited search engine, and has plans for more…..here’s and excerpt from his blog…
have recently reaquired the RealNames domain name – realnames.com. This is some 30 moths after we were forced to close the company.
It feels good to have 100% ownership back of a thing I spent 5 years creating. To be honest I’m not yet sure what I will do with it.
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