Category: Of Note in Search Biz

Udell on Scylla and Charybdis

Over at Infoworld (thanks Matt) Jon Udell is working out what might be a neat hack between the full text approach to search found at most search engines, and the rather utopian approach of the fully structured semantic web. It involves, among other things, converting RSS feeds into XHMTL. Not…

Over at Infoworld (thanks Matt) Jon Udell is working out what might be a neat hack between the full text approach to search found at most search engines, and the rather utopian approach of the fully structured semantic web. It involves, among other things, converting RSS feeds into XHMTL. Not for the faint of heart, but an interesting angle in terms of grokking how useful search may evolve from the feed-o-sphere….

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When Gary Price Writes…

…many folks listen. Gary is the Editor of Resourceshelf and a strong voice in cutting edge librarian/geek culture. In this piece, guest written for Pandia.com, Gary lists his top ten grips about Google. Many of them run along a theme which might best be summed up as failures to nurture…

…many folks listen. Gary is the Editor of Resourceshelf and a strong voice in cutting edge librarian/geek culture. In this piece, guest written for Pandia.com, Gary lists his top ten grips about Google. Many of them run along a theme which might best be summed up as failures to nurture the open, geek culture from which Google sprang.

Highlights:

1) Google needs to fix several advanced search problems. Many of them have been known for several months. These are things that should work….

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The Orkut/Data Connection

Jeremy Zwadony nails a key reason Google needs Orkut – it's the data…Yahoo, MSN, AOL all have boatloads of data about their users. For future search models like local and personalized advertising, and for user lock-in, this kind of information is critical. So far, Google has very little data on…

Jeremy Zwadony nails a key reason Google needs Orkut – it’s the data…Yahoo, MSN, AOL all have boatloads of data about their users. For future search models like local and personalized advertising, and for user lock-in, this kind of information is critical. So far, Google has very little data on its users. Orkut could solve that, for a portion of the user base…if it would work, that is. It was offline (unintentionally) most of yesterday…wonder if they are ruing the .net decision…

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Corporate Reputation Management Engine

So perfect is this, that I must simply quote from the release, and let it speak for itself. SEO has come to PR! Converseon Launches First-of-Its-Kind Search Engine Reputation Management Service NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 28, 2004– "SERMA(C)" Combines Innovative Content Management Techniques Together with Sophisticated Optimization Skills To Help Companies…

So perfect is this, that I must simply quote from the release, and let it speak for itself. SEO has come to PR!

Converseon Launches First-of-Its-Kind Search Engine Reputation Management Service

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 28, 2004–

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Interesting Twist: Google and WhoIs LookUps

Andy Beal points out in his blog that Google has been blocked from performing Whois lookups by Network Solutions. The "Whois" feature (which lets you find out who owns a web domain) was one of many added recently by Google in its continued quest to "make the world's information accessible."…

logo-netsol.gifAndy Beal points out in his blog that Google has been blocked from performing Whois lookups by Network Solutions. The “Whois” feature (which lets you find out who owns a web domain) was one of many added recently by Google in its continued quest to “make the world’s information accessible.” Alex S. at BizWeek pointed out in a piece blogged here that there’s a business model behind this intent (I’ll take disintermediation for $500, thank you very much). We had a back and forth about it in the comments as well.

In any case, it’s significant that Network Solutions is pushing back. Andy, who writes in large part to the SEO community, comments:

There’s some hypocrisy here. Google publicly chastises anyone who run ranking reports on the Google Index, claiming that it is a drain of their server resources. Yet they seem quite happy to launch a service that has the same impact on Network Solutions…

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Another SE Chart

This one from SE consultant Bruce Clay. It includes overviews of all the majors. If you stare at this for more than five minutes, ping me. We have at least that much in common. (Thanks, Kottke)….

This one from SE consultant Bruce Clay. It includes overviews of all the majors. If you stare at this for more than five minutes, ping me. We have at least that much in common. (Thanks, Kottke).

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Gigablast Connects Wayback…

Gigablast, still the work of one mad scientist (Matt Wells), now directly links search results to the Wayback Machine (link via Resourceshelf). This is pretty cool – I've always wondered why other engines don't crawl history, so to speak, or at least offer it as an option…….

Gigablast, still the work of one mad scientist (Matt Wells), now directly links search results to the Wayback Machine (link via Resourceshelf). This is pretty cool – I’ve always wondered why other engines don’t crawl history, so to speak, or at least offer it as an option….

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Google Clears Sarbanes-Oxley Audit, Next Stop….Wall St.?

Markoff writes in the NYT today that Google has completed an internal audit of its compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. This is no small feat, the law requires an audit trail of every third party transaction, and Google has millions of them a week in its PPC engine. According to the Times:…

Markoff writes in the NYT today that Google has completed an internal audit of its compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. This is no small feat, the law requires an audit trail of every third party transaction, and Google has millions of them a week in its PPC engine. According to the Times:

Google’s board has been awaiting the report before giving the final go-ahead for the company to file a formal stock registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to several executives involved with the process….

The company has not yet picked a lead underwriter for its stock market offering, Google executives say, but several people involved in the process say that J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs are the only real candidates to manage the deal. Google is still weighing whether it should offer some shares through a public auction, in part to deflect potential criticism over whether the many investors eager to own a piece of the business will be treated in an equitable fashion.

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