On Weds, eMarketer released a report claiming that paid search crossed the $2 billion mark in 2003, and that local paid search will be the critical next step for the industry. MediaNews also reports….
Queryster lets you toggle between a bunch of different search engines on one search. Really cool. Here's "searchblog" results. (via Beal)…
Queryster lets you toggle between a bunch of different search engines on one search. Really cool. Here’s “searchblog” results. (via Beal)
George Colony, CEO of Forrester, opines on Google in a registration-required brief released last week. Readers (thank you!) alerted me to this immediately, but the etech conference meant my posting has been and will be slower this week. Colony begins by effusively praising the company. "The Web has gone through…
George Colony, CEO of Forrester, opines on Google in a registration-required brief released last week. Readers (thank you!) alerted me to this immediately, but the etech conference meant my posting has been and will be slower this week.
Colony begins by effusively praising the company. “The Web has gone through two major phases in its short history: pre-Google and post-Google…Sergei Brin and Larry Page, Google’s founders, may go down in history as the guys who saved the Internet.”” A bit sweeping, IMHO.
But Colony is setting up a straw man, and he goes on to knock it down. “Is Google’s search good? Yes. Is the company worth tens of billions? No.”
Read MoreDan Gillmor points us to Soople, a search tool which seems destined to wear out its 1000-search-a-day API limit over at Google. The engine rides on top of Google and makes that engine's advanced features easier to use. From the About page: (Soople is) a site that softens all the…
Dan Gillmor points us to Soople, a search tool which seems destined to wear out its 1000-search-a-day API limit over at Google. The engine rides on top of Google and makes that engine’s advanced features easier to use.
From the About page: (Soople is) a site that softens all the fantastic (advanced) functions Google offers. Initially I made this site for my mother, who, though computer-savvy, still didn’t know about all the possibilities Google offers.
John Carroll writes a guest editorial in ZDNet. It's an interesting and thought-provoking argument that MSFT should not be seen as the bad guy in the MSFT v. Google story, and includes some good suggestions on how MSFT might integrate search in a fair and open manner. Whaddya think, Scoble?…
From the WashPost, via the Straits Times, comes this instance of scaremongering: "Your secrets aren't safe – from the search engines." A casual reader might conclude that somehow search engines can scan your hard drive and tender your private information to anyone. But in fact, the point is, some people…
From the WashPost, via the Straits Times, comes this instance of scaremongering: “Your secrets aren’t safe – from the search engines.” A casual reader might conclude that somehow search engines can scan your hard drive and tender your private information to anyone. But in fact, the point is, some people (and more often, companies/universities) are dumb enough to put the wrong thing online, and there is a subculture of folks who make a sport (or a business) of finding these documents (ie excel spreadsheets with credit card numbers). “It is all legal” the paper warns omminously, “using the world’s most powerful Internet search engine.” Sigh. Reminds me of early coverage of the net itself.
Via ResearchBuzz, a meta-search engine with reference, shopping, and weblogs tabs…Seekscan….
In true Pull-An-Allnighter style, I get an email from David at around 3 am, letting the world know that Technorati (which is hiring) now has search, which was one of my big beefs with the site. I haven't had a chance to check it out much yet (traveling this morning…
In true Pull-An-Allnighter style, I get an email from David at around 3 am, letting the world know that Technorati (which is hiring) now has search, which was one of my big beefs with the site. I haven’t had a chance to check it out much yet (traveling this morning to ETech), but this is a cool development. The site now searches at the post-level – not just URLs, which means they can add feeds should they wish to. Should be cool to watch…
Jeremy can't heat up his lunch at work without someone asking him about RSS. Certainly the meme is spreading. Read his comments if you want good dialog/intro on why RSS matters….
Gary points to this article, which I missed this morning…the NYT does a nice piece on why humans in fact can do stuff computers can't… "Maybe they could have found the answer faster on Google, but who knows if it would be right?" Ms. Tuckerman (a librarian) said. "It's not…
“Maybe they could have found the answer faster on Google, but who knows if it would be right?” Ms. Tuckerman (a librarian) said. “It’s not that I don’t like Google, but we’re the information experts.”
