Is the stem the L? I dunno. I think Google needs a spell checker. Oh wait, they have one?! OK, more updates from the doodler at Google. Apparently I fail to have "true romance and poetry in my soul". No, not at all. Now, the idea that a stem…
OK, more updates from the doodler at Google. Apparently I fail to have “true romance and poetry in my soul”. No, not at all. Now, the idea that a stem is an apostrophe is, well, the literal idea. The more poetic, of course, is this: “I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die.”
hat tip to KK
Interesting post on who's buying keywords this early: To my surprise, only five of the 17 presumed candidates have purchased keywords on search engines. And if you take a closer look, it’s the Republicans who are doing a significantly better job of using search to communicate with the electorate….
To my surprise, only five of the 17 presumed candidates have purchased keywords on search engines. And if you take a closer look, it’s the Republicans who are doing a significantly better job of using search to communicate with the electorate.
I usually don't write about totally off topic stuff here but….Pitchers and catchers report this week. There's light at the end of the long winter tunnel….
Reader JG points me to this release, from IBM Research in Haifa: IBM recently announced the launch of a new EU 6th Framework project for Search on Audio-visual content using Peer-to-peer Information Retrieval (SAPIR) to build a large scale information community that will make multimedia files more accessible. SAPIR…
IBM recently announced the launch of a new EU 6th Framework project for Search on Audio-visual content using Peer-to-peer Information Retrieval (SAPIR) to build a large scale information community that will make multimedia files more accessible.
SAPIR is geared towards finding new ways to analyze, index, and retrieve the tremendous amounts of speech, image, video, and music that are filling our digital universe. The ultimate result will be a peer-to-peer distributed space that can be searched by content or example rather than using the current methods, which are limited to keywords and text-based tags.
GigaOm: Telcos Target Google in ‘Neutrality’ Fight If you like your wrestling with mud, this is the place to watch. TechCrunch: NBC Piles On Google – YouTube Strategy in Question And…we're surprised? The deals are not going as the majors want them to go. The millions are not in…
TechCrunch: NBC Piles On Google – YouTube Strategy in Question
And…we’re surprised?
The deals are not going as the majors want them to go. The millions are not in their bank account, and the honeymoon is over.
Digg: Cingular CEO bragging about Apple “bending” to his lock-in demands
Old, but good. Steve Jobs calls them “orifices”. But we all need an asshole now and then, don’t we Steve?
I like search hacks by grad students. Like SearchBots, for example. Searchbots.net is an experimental search engine that investigates the use of mythology, personification and game theory as motivational strategies in creating a sustainable search community. Searchbots has a rich history and is unique in that it allows you…
Searchbots.net is an experimental search engine that investigates the use of mythology, personification and game theory as motivational strategies in creating a sustainable search community. Searchbots has a rich history and is unique in that it allows you to search using more “human” and entertaining types of information like colour and mood. If you picked the colour red you might get a website about tomatoes, communism or angry people.
I got an early peek at this months ago and I loved the concept. Anil has a write up here. From it: Yahoo's launched an interesting and innovative new service, Pipes, which lets users with a relatively low degree of technological expertise combine structured sources of web data such…
Yahoo’s launched an interesting and innovative new service, Pipes, which lets users with a relatively low degree of technological expertise combine structured sources of web data such as feeds. In this way, it’s possible for non-experts to create new web services for their own use or for public consumption. Pipes combines a remarkably sophisticated development environment with some core social features such as the ability to clone or share the web services you produce. The service is fairly approachable, but somewhat complex once you get just under the surface, and should be moderately successful while radically raising the bar for other tools in its category.
Oh, and Tim’s stoked too.
Googlers pride themselves on being Googley. Remember the first line of the IPO filing ("Google is not a conventional company…we do not intend to become one…")? But I got this press release today, and man, it sounds, well, just like any other lame press release from any other company…
Google Checkout Makes It Easy to Shop for Your Sweetheart (or Sweethearts) This Valentine’s Day
Finding the perfect Valentines Day gift for your sweetheart is hard enough, but what about looking for two? According to a recent survey commissioned by Google Checkout(TM) and conducted by Harris Interactive, 1 out of every 2 (52%) U.S. adult Valentine’s Day shoppers* will be buying gifts for more than one Valentine this year – for their spouses, for their parents and other family members, for their pets, and maybe even for multiple sweethearts.
Read MoreInnaresting. From Threadwatch: According to a Pandia article, Google is building a very large "rat trap" and using historical data to identify search engine spammers. So, if you were a spammer in the past or ever tried any so-called "black hat techniques" to manipulate a website's search engine rankings,…
According to a Pandia article, Google is building a very large “rat trap” and using historical data to identify search engine spammers. So, if you were a spammer in the past or ever tried any so-called “black hat techniques” to manipulate a website’s search engine rankings, it might come back to haunt you.
In fact, the Pandia article says Google “may” be doing this. Caveat reader….
An overview of Greenplum, the "Web 2.0 server", from VentureBeat….
