A SF Chron article takes a look. Fine overview if you've not been paying attention…..
Some great comments – and debates – all over the site lately. Thought I'd point a few out. On my post about Quintura, some of Searchblog's most prolific and accomplished commentators have a strong discussion of approaches to search. Worth the read. Over at my post on Google's 10-K,…
On my post about Quintura, some of Searchblog’s most prolific and accomplished commentators have a strong discussion of approaches to search. Worth the read.
Over at my post on Google’s 10-K, reader Lars, who has some serious credentials in new media, goes off on a nice long rant, it’s also worth the read….
Read MoreYes, indeed. Google's code blog has hard numbers on the number of calls to Google's Gadgets. It's clear Google is looking to promote these tools, as allowing numbers like these to get out is not common. In fact, I'd say it's a totally unnatural act for Google. The numbers…
* Google Map – 4,861,113
* PacMan v2.0 – 8,114,344
* DIGG – 3,228,599
* My IP – 1,063,244
* Wikipedia – 27,314,972
* Countdown – 2,076,028
* Online Second Life Friends – 1,396
* Free Sudoku Puzzles – 4,450,349
* Memory Game – 647,151
Yeah, it is. This post from Searchviews talks about a survey Google is fielding to learn more about what products it might create for advertisers….
When was the last time the market dropped 500 points? Yep, right after 9.11. Today's events – we can blame China, but I don't buy it – I sense the US markets were waiting for a reason to head for the hills. It reminded me of a few events…
Each of those events predicated major changes in the world, and certainly in my life and the lives of tons of folks in our industry. But this time, I’m not sure. It’s not like we have a ton of overvalued stocks out there in the web world, like we did in the late 90s, but….I’m still uneasy about where this might go. Are you?
Pal and amazing author Steven Johnson, a founder of Outside.in, is now a funded entrepreneur. Congrats! Outside.in is a local blog/web aggregator – a sort of town newspaper writ large. I love the concept, but that's been true of nearly everything Steven has dreamt up……
Outside.in is a local blog/web aggregator – a sort of town newspaper writ large. I love the concept, but that’s been true of nearly everything Steven has dreamt up…
Become.com is a shopping search engine (previous coverage here). They rent space in an office complex that is now owned by…wait for it….Google. Their sense of humor was not appreciated by the new landlords, apparently……
Mark Fletcher, who started Bloglines among other stuff, has created a blog to help folks start up companies. He asked me to help him with his first post. Check it out here….
This augurs further action on the part of Google (via Digg). I can't imagine it will stand. From the original posting on Hitwise: The percentage of Google's downstream traffic going to Wikipedia increased by 166% year over year (week ending 2/10/07 vs. week ending 2/11/06). Last week Wikipedia was…
The percentage of Google’s downstream traffic going to Wikipedia increased by 166% year over year (week ending 2/10/07 vs. week ending 2/11/06). Last week Wikipedia was the #3 website in Google’s downstream, after Google Image Search and MySpace.
Regardless of posturing, no business likes to send that much traffic to a third party site without some kind of value coming back. Will Wikipedia start running AdWords? Watch this space. I could imagine some kind of approach that drives revenue to the Wikimedia foundation….
From Moment. Well done. What's interesting is that Sergey let the author talk to his parents, even visit his home. That was off limits a few years ago….
