Category: Of Note in Search Biz

Resourceshelf Interviews Dipsie Founder

Gary interviews Jason Wiener, the CEO of Dipsie. I've spoken with Jason a few times, but I'm still waiting to hear confirmation on various aspects of the story before I post. Meantime, Gary's post is a good overview of the company's intentions…….

Gary interviews Jason Wiener, the CEO of Dipsie. I’ve spoken with Jason a few times, but I’m still waiting to hear confirmation on various aspects of the story before I post. Meantime, Gary’s post is a good overview of the company’s intentions….

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Germane to the Last Post…

Stefanie's piece on CNET this morning: Search wars are about to get personal. In it she notes that new comScore research points to a lack of loyalty toward search brands, even Google….

Stefanie’s piece on CNET this morning: Search wars are about to get personal. In it she notes that new comScore research points to a lack of loyalty toward search brands, even Google.

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Google Index Swells, Yahoo Switch Imminent

Google put out a press release today noting that its index has swelled to 4.28 billion images, and combined with images and usenet, total pages indexed now reaches past 6 billion. Full text of release is in the extended entry below. Gary's Resourceshelf has commentary here. My question: why now?…

google.gifGoogle put out a press release today noting that its index has swelled to 4.28 billion images, and combined with images and usenet, total pages indexed now reaches past 6 billion. Full text of release is in the extended entry below. Gary’s Resourceshelf has commentary here.

My question: why now? It’s generally considered true that Google can raise its index number pretty much when it feels like it (this isn’t some technical breakthrough or new achievement, a lot of folks claim Google has been underreporting its number to date), so what provoked this timing? Could be the pressure to keep appearance of innovation up, and/or the pressure of new competitors, recently feted in various articles, who promise larger indexes, such as Dipsie, or a response to Yahoo’s new search solution, which is rolling out…well now it seems… as Andy Beal sends word that Yahoo’s switching over to its own technology, even though the announcement has not been made. Here’s Yahoo’s Search page – go check it out. Andy also points to a survey on Yahoo that Webmasterworld folks found about the search experience.

UPDATE: As to the company’s timing, Google PRmeister Nate Tyler says: “We hit the milestone and thought it might be nice to let our users know.” In other words, this is not a reaction to anything…

As for the Yahoo news, I spoke again with Jeff Weiner today, and he is really on fire. He acknowledged that the new Yahoo crawler, Slurp, is out and about, and that changes are afoot….more when I can tell you more…

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Scoble Says: Watch This Space

Feedster and Technorati: Scoble says they might be the ones to "steamroll Google."…

Feedster and Technorati: Scoble says they might be the ones to “steamroll Google.”

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Jeremy On Yahoo’s New Search

Jeremy posts a few insights and such on Yahoo's forthcoming new search……

Jeremy posts a few insights and such on Yahoo’s forthcoming new search…

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More Demo hacks

Dave Sifry, who is also at Demo, has posted a Demo conference conversation page on Technorati…looks like there's some healthy competition going between Feedster and Technorati! This page is a combination of keyword search (which Technorati recently added), and link cosmos around Demo-related URLs… (thanks for the pointer Dave)…

Dave Sifry, who is also at Demo, has posted a Demo conference conversation page on Technorati…looks like there’s some healthy competition going between Feedster and Technorati! This page is a combination of keyword search (which Technorati recently added), and link cosmos around Demo-related URLs…
(thanks for the pointer Dave)

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Times on Local Search

This Times piece explores the Yellow Pages market of small businesses (plumbers, etc) who don't have websites but increasingly feel the pressure to have an online advertising presence. Why? Because the customers are increasingly using search instead of the Yellow Pages (the Times based that conclusion on research from the…

This Times piece explores the Yellow Pages market of small businesses (plumbers, etc) who don’t have websites but increasingly feel the pressure to have an online advertising presence. Why? Because the customers are increasingly using search instead of the Yellow Pages (the Times based that conclusion on research from the Kelsey Group and Bizrate.) The article provides an overview of the current state of Overture and Google’s local search solutions.

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Neat Feedster Hack

Feedster is demo'ing at the Demo conference today, and Scott sent along news of their latest feature: Feedpapers. They've got proof of concept here: Political Feedpapers for each candidate. In essence a Feedpaper is a search of the blogophere for posts on a particular topic, which are then organized and…

Feedster is demo’ing at the Demo conference today, and Scott sent along news of their latest feature: Feedpapers. They’ve got proof of concept here: Political Feedpapers for each candidate. In essence a Feedpaper is a search of the blogophere for posts on a particular topic, which are then organized and presented for you. It’s well done.

Feedster has a page with more on Feedpapers:

When you think about what Feedster really does, it lets you listen to the web. A Feedpaper is a sophisticated daily newspaper, a “Feedpaper”, automatically constructed from what people are saying about a subject. We offer a handful of general interest Feedpapers and you or your organization can sign up for a personal Feedpaper (not yet available; coming soon).

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Tech Review: Search Beyond Google

A good overview of various approaches to search, with sections on Mooter, Dipsie, and Microsoft, as well as an interview with Google employee #1, Craig Silverstein. A minor but interesting piece of infoporn: Craig tells the reporter that Google engineers spend 10 percent of their time on outside projects. That's…

A good overview of various approaches to search, with sections on Mooter, Dipsie, and Microsoft, as well as an interview with Google employee #1, Craig Silverstein. A minor but interesting piece of infoporn: Craig tells the reporter that Google engineers spend 10 percent of their time on outside projects. That’s down from 20 percent. Or maybe it was a mistake. Thanks to Gary for the pointer….

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Vivisimo Targets eBay Listings

AP reports Vivisimo has released a search application that uses eBay's API to search eBay's listings. Sort of like what Grokker does for Google, Vivisimo does for eBay listings. Interesting. Wonder if eBay will respond……

AP reports Vivisimo has released a search application that uses eBay’s API to search eBay’s listings. Sort of like what Grokker does for Google, Vivisimo does for eBay listings. Interesting. Wonder if eBay will respond…

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