Posts Tagged with ‘search’

The subject of the Web search wars is almost entirely spent. Google is el leadero supremo. No getting around that. It is what it is. The company’s been live and kickin’ for about a decade, and in that time, it’s shown all other market participants that it’s the biggest swinging you-know-what around. It’s proven itself year after year to be an unrelenting force, achieving goals most anyone wouldn’t have predicted that it’d lay claim to. One might even wonder [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about Powerset and their recent restructuring. Today, I talked with Barney Pell one of the founders and former CEO of the startup. As I have said before many times, Barney is an extraordinary person with a brilliant vision and Powerset has been one of my favorite topics of discussion. As far as my previous post, I had some concerns over the underlying causes for Steve Newcomb's absence and also Barney's shift [...]

I received my much anticipated invitation to Powerset's Powerlabs the other day, and was excited to finally get an inside peek one of the years most interesting startups. I have covered Powerset many times since my first article back in January. The brainchild of Barney Pell, Steve Newcomb and Lorenzo Thione held great potential in providing natural language search relevance for the Web. Powerlabs does indicate some significant developments toward natural search, but the larger issue to me is: "Where [...]

Apparently, we are all being observed under a series of magnifying glasses for various purposes. Have you ever wondered if other people search for the same things you do? Statistics from Google (who else) reveal some interesting facts about the world's search habits.
As it turns out - Egypt, India and Turkey are at the top of the list for the term sex for Google searches there. The stats are actually quite interesting and even disturbing.
What conclusions we draw from [...]

StylePath is another venture aimed at marrying users to brands or products via Web technologies. Unlike recommendation engines we have seen, StylePath personalizes product recommendations to the individual rather than collaboratively. The focus for StylePath is on individual aesthetic preference and their patented visual search technology. The site is in private beta testing now, but is scheduled for launch next Tuesday. We thought you should have a look inside this interesting development before the place gets too crowded.
Humans and [...]

My good friend Dr. Riza Berkan just clued me in to a new comparative feature at hakia where users can test hakia against various search engines side-by-side. This feature has been on the hakia site for a little while but Riza and hakia have not publicized it and I thought our readers would be interested. Hakia has been under the radar fora little while now, so I was really glad to get a note from Riza and some cool news [...]

Are you familiar with Robert Scoble? Once a “tech evangelist” and uber-popular blogger (Scobleizer) backed by Redmond, he (along with his spouse) is now pulling strings at PodTech, a video podcast startup. He’s a big voice in the Valley. Lots of people listen when he speaks. Problem is, he can be kind of, well, irrational on occasion, and in the tech space, such a characteristic isn’t a very good one to have. Not good, at least, to showcase to a [...]

We all love the concept of open source. It excites us. Despite the fact that the vast majority of computer users rely on creations born of a proprietary nature for most, or even all of their daily tasks, a big soft spot for Tux & Friends still exists. In an ideal world, everything would be “open”. I’m sure you’d agree.
There’ve been some great successes in the OS world. Linux, for one. It’s not the most popular platform out there today [...]

In an effort to make itself known as the most thorough of privacy protectors in the realm of search today, Ask.com, generally thought to be the fourth in line to the industry throne (behind Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL), has announced a feature to be launched later this year which will allow users to perform “anonymous searches.”
The feature, dubbed "AskEraser", will be possible for the portal’s users to easily turn on as a barrier disallowing Ask from retaining any information regarding [...]