Interview with Eric: Transcript And Video

Google has posted the transcript here. Thanks Gary! And the video is here and below, thanks Soren!…

Google has posted the transcript here. Thanks Gary!

And the video is here and below, thanks Soren!

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Google Gets Personal

Google Blogoscoped live blogged Google's personalization presentations today. Find it here….

Google Blogoscoped live blogged Google’s personalization presentations today. Find it here.

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Yahoo 404

I love Geek humor, and that this is in SF! Oh, by the way, the Giants have won 8 IN A ROW and SWEPT THE HATED DODGERS!…

Yahoo 404

I love Geek humor, and that this is in SF! Oh, by the way, the Giants have won 8 IN A ROW and SWEPT THE HATED DODGERS!

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Google – NBC: Very Dumb Idea

Some buzz from Wall St: Analysts are saying that there is no "synergy" between NBC, a GE Unit, and the conglomerates' other units. So the analysts suggest selling it. That is nothing new, this kind of stuff is tossed around all the time on Wall St. But what is…

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Some buzz from Wall St: Analysts are saying that there is no “synergy” between NBC, a GE Unit, and the conglomerates’ other units. So the analysts suggest selling it. That is nothing new, this kind of stuff is tossed around all the time on Wall St. But what is new is the suggestion that the best buyer might be Google.

Such a move would be a monumental error. Google is not a company that wants to or probably even knows how to own a major media company. Also, it has outlined a strategy that positions the company as a Switzerland of sorts with regard to major media companies. Buying one of them would kill that strategy.

And lastly, I think the coporate cultures would clash so deeply, AOL/Time Warner would look like a love match in comparison.

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Target Acquired

Google is now the #1 brand and the #1 website. Welcome to the top, Google. Lonely yet?…

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Google is now the #1 brand and the #1 website. Welcome to the top, Google. Lonely yet?

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Gilgamesh

Those of you who've read my book may recall I go a tear around the epic of Gilgamesh, and it's meaning in a search-driven world. I was thrilled to see this Salon review of a new book that tells the story of the oldest known story. The review itself…

Story

Those of you who’ve read my book may recall I go a tear around the epic of Gilgamesh, and it’s meaning in a search-driven world. I was thrilled to see this Salon review of a new book that tells the story of the oldest known story. The review itself is a worthy read.

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Congrats, Walt and Kara!

On the launch of the All Things Digital site. These guys are pals of mine, pros for sure, and I can't wait to start reading……

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On the launch of the All Things Digital site. These guys are pals of mine, pros for sure, and I can’t wait to start reading…

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Search Index Grammars

During the conversation yesterday I mentioned something that I've been meaning to talk to you all about – the idea of different "grammars" for search indexes. Last week I changed my default engine from Google to Yahoo for a while. Now, Yahoo has a very good engine, and I…

Choices

During the conversation yesterday I mentioned something that I’ve been meaning to talk to you all about – the idea of different “grammars” for search indexes. Last week I changed my default engine from Google to Yahoo for a while. Now, Yahoo has a very good engine, and I know its results are, by some objective measures, as good if not better than Google’s results. But what I did not realize, given how long I’ve defaulted to Google, how significant an “accent” Yahoo has compared to the idiom I was used to by using Google. In short, I’m very fluent in navigating through the mass of unstructured results that Google offers me after I enter my two or three word keyword phrase. But with Yahoo, I often find myself conversing in a foreign tongue. Not that the language is better or worse, just….different. Interesting….

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