Posts Tagged with ‘search’

It seems that everyone has already grown accustomed to the idea of search engines market completely dominated by Google. But at the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Search, Portal and Advertising Platform Group, has made a statement showing that at least the software giant sees a possibility to change the situation. And the change is in the field of better user experience based on behavioral targeting and semantic search technologies. Currently the [...]

It may be time for Popular Mechanics to be declared dead. The 468 individuals who Digged the article should hang it up as well. There are really 468 people out there who think that How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It is actually news?
The concept of a semantic web was introduced years ago. References to it can be found as far back as 2000, with a more formal definition appearing in a column on O'Reily by [...]

Gmail has been both savior and demon for me. As the person who regularly gets the “you are over your email quota” emails on the free email account provided by my ISP, Gmail lets me go months without ever having to think about cleaning out my inbox. Of course, that means I go months without ever weeding through all the emails in there, and whether I hit a storage ceiling or not, it leads to one huge mess.
Gmail has an [...]

Nothing excites me more than hearing about semantic anything. I'm lazy. I have too many things to read already. And I am tired of trying to sift through tons of review sites where reviews are often incomplete, non-existant, or just plain irrelevant. I was thrilled to hear about Swotti, a new beta site that claims it will do all that sifting work for me, leaving me with a crisp, clean snapshot review of anything I'm looking for.
The reality is that [...]

Guest post written for Profy by Nitin Karandikar of the Software Abstractions blog.
The Few, the Proud
A few days ago, in its commentary section, the Wall Street Journal reported on an interview with General James T. Conway, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.
In the interview, Gen. Conway muses on the way the tactics and equipment of the Marines are changing, in response to the unique nature of the responsibilities they have in Iraq and the evolving nature of their mission.
One way [...]

Microsoft just announced that they will try to acquire Fast Search & Transfer, which is a Norwegian enterprise search solution. The deal is reportedly in excess of $1 billion and is dependent on FS&T shareholder approval. The big three in search, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have been locked in this search battle for some time with Google taking the lion's share of the users.
As many have predicted, Microsoft was destined to make some move to close the gap between [...]

Wikia Search , the new user-generated search engine from the Wikimedia Foundation, launched today to much fanfare. Still in alpha, Wikipedia founder and CEO Jimmy Wales admits that as an alpha release, it still lacks user data, leading to poor results, but he expects the search to improve over the coming weeks.
According to Wales, the future of Internet search depends on change according to Four Organizing Principles: transparency, community, quality, and privacy. And while he claims that Wikia [...]

Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google have all been playing it pretty loose with their respective advertisement networks, giving Web-based gambling houses the option to market their services more or less as they wish.
And now the three largest text-based ad agents on the Net are paying for it. According to the AP, all parties mentioned above agreed “to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations” that they worked to perpetuate illegal gambling in years past.
Some say the collective [...]

I got the opportunity to speak with Peter Adams -CEO of Matchpoint on Thursday of last week. Matchpoint is a fairly revolutionary startup aimed at improving both ends of the Internet advertising spectrum. Matchpoint allows consumers to search for businesses that are radically more relevant to their needs. With some modification, this type of search/suggestion innovation could very well rival Adsense and especially banner ads for certain businesses. Essentially, Matchpoint provides a win-win solution for advertisers and customers.
Peter [...]