Google’s Flash-Eating Spider
This announcement is definitely cool and will open up whole new areas of the web to search. But truthfully I just wanted to post this because it lends itself to a great headline. From the FAQ posted on...
View ArticleBrowseRank – Microsoft’s Answer to PageRank
Microsoft announced today that they’ve discovered a better way to rank web pages. While Google’s PageRank sorts roughly on the number of incoming links that point to a page, a vote of confidence by...
View ArticleWagging your Long Tail with Just for You
What if you could ask each reader that came to your blog what they were interested in and show them a list of posts from your archives that matched those interests? I’ve been blogging for over five...
View ArticleTechmeme is hiring
Techmeme is hiring someone to tweak their algorithms. It’s a new kind of role but one which I think we’ll be seeing more of in the future; in newsrooms and in corporate PR departments. When it’s so...
View ArticleYouTube as a Search Engine
My son was featured in yesterday’s Sunday New York Times in an article (At First, Funny videos. Now, a Reference Tool) about the unforeseen use of YouTube as a research tool. We all associate videos...
View ArticleSpokeo Repositioned as a Snitch
While it may be technically true, I’m not a big fan of Spokeo’s new positioning. Uncover personal photos, videos, and secrets. . . GUARANTEED
View ArticleReal-time Search, Art or Science?
Erik Schonfeld at TechCrunch posted a thought-provoking piece on real-time search. Twitter and Facebook are falling over each other in the media spotlight, fighting to be the place to go to find out...
View ArticleFun with Google Social Search
Google Social Search is now available in Google Labs. Danny Sullivan has the most in-depth coverage out there but it’s worth turning on yourself because you’re going to be the best judge of how well...
View ArticleUsing Wordle to Visualize Keyword Traffic
On Avinash’s excellent Ten Steps to Love & Success post on Web Data Analysis he writes about using the keyword tag cloud visualization tool Wordle to visualize search terms used to reach your site....
View ArticleDavid Segal on Search
David Segal, the same New York Times journalist who filed the fascinating 5,500+ word piece in November about decormyeyes.com is back again. The Dirty Little Secrets of Search with a great piece...
View ArticlePinterest is a Database of Human Intentions
If you pin something to a board, the name of that board is a string and that string by definition describes it. Someone else pins the same thing to another board. And on and on. One board says shirts,...
View ArticleGoogle’s Flash-Eating Spider
This announcement is definitely cool and will open up whole new areas of the web to search. But truthfully I just wanted to post this because it lends itself to a great headline. From the FAQ posted on...
View ArticlePinterest is a Database of Human Intentions
If you pin something to a board, the name of that board is a string and that string by definition describes it. Someone else pins the same thing to another board. And on and on. One board says shirts,...
View ArticleGigaom Search & Alerts
I never got around to writing about the Search and Alerts products I worked on while at Gigaom. Using native WordPress features and extending it just a bit, we were able to build a full-fledged faceted...
View ArticleWagging your Long Tail with Just for You
What if you could ask each reader that came to your blog what they were interested in and show them a list of posts from your archives that matched those interests? I’ve been blogging for over five...
View ArticleTechmeme is hiring
Techmeme is hiring someone to tweak their algorithms. It’s a new kind of role but one which I think we’ll be seeing more of in the future; in newsrooms and in corporate PR departments. When it’s so...
View ArticleYouTube as a Search Engine
My son was featured in yesterday’s Sunday New York Times in an article (At First, Funny videos. Now, a Reference Tool) about the unforeseen use of YouTube as a research tool. We all associate videos...
View ArticleSpokeo Repositioned as a Snitch
While it may be technically true, I’m not a big fan of Spokeo’s new positioning. Uncover personal photos, videos, and secrets. . . GUARANTEED
View ArticleReal-time Search, Art or Science?
Erik Schonfeld at TechCrunch posted a thought-provoking piece on real-time search. Twitter and Facebook are falling over each other in the media spotlight, fighting to be the place to go to find out...
View ArticleFun with Google Social Search
Google Social Search is now available in Google Labs. Danny Sullivan has the most in-depth coverage out there but it’s worth turning on yourself because you’re going to be the best judge of how well...
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