Posts Tagged with ‘search’

I was visiting the hakia blog today and found an interesting post by Melek Pulatkonak their COO. Recent privacy problems in the news and particularly Google's "issues" in this area have prompted much discussion. According to this blog article hakia has initiated a second "Search for Better Search" conversation with these critical and debated issues in mind. I covered the first version of these conversations back in May after a great talk with Melek who went to great lengths to [...]

Ask.com. There’s a lot of love for the fourth-most-popular search engine on the Net. It’s an industry player that’s okay with not having to fight for the top spot. (Though it certainly would take it if the crown were offered.) It caters to loyalists and is content in knowing it offers more bang for the buck than just about any portal in existence today. Of course, it’d enhance it’s allure even further if I’d take Jeeves out of retirement to [...]

Earlier this month, we brought you word that eBay was showing a significant amount of interesting in one of the more unique search engines on the Web, StumbleUpon. Today, we bring you news that eBay has officially acquired the recommendation site.
For the same amount the rumor mill was throwing about, too.
Yes, StumbleUpon sold its soul over to the auction-house-in-so-many-areas-of-the-tech-industry-that-it-doesn’t-know-what-to-do-with-itself for a sizable $75 million in cash. We’re still curious to learn exactly why eBay has taken a now-public $75m [...]

Mahalo is a human-powered search engine. Currently they have over 4,000 of the top English search phrases mapped with their own pages, and by the end of the year they hope to have 10,000. It’s a five year project, and this is only their fifth month. With Mahalo you are guaranteed to never run into any spam and to only get quality results, since each page is written by actual people and not algorithms.
The Guides, or page writers, also help [...]

Spring is the season of rebirth and revival, which many companies with homes on the Internet have taken to heart. One such website, which just a day or two ago reemerged onto the scene with a fresh coat of paint, is Technorati, a well kept index of blogs, videos, and music. And I must say, the new incarnation is far more attractive.
There’s nothing miraculous about Technorati. The site tracks what’s new and what’s popular in Web 2.0, and sorts it [...]

I have had rather vast experience as freelance translator so I am particularly interested in testing all translation-related Web tools. There are some good translation and language-learning communities online (and we have already mentioned some of them). But I have never seen any good example of machine translation. I have seen funny examples, ridiculous examples, even hilarious examples. But never in my life have I seen a good (or even so-so) example of machine translation.
I always thought that using [...]

The search engine of all search engines: AfterVote.com. This is a great way to find what you’re looking for with so many more tools and so much more precision than the basic search engine. AfterVote takes the results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN search and puts them together listed by relevance.
With each site that comes up, you can automatically see its page ranking on the various search engines, its Alexa ranking, ways to bookmark it, and so much more. [...]

3GSM’s gathering in Barcelona this year had one of the greatest opening days of any conference to take place in the last month or so. Many of the main acts were coming out big with news of new products and services. It’s safe to say that there was no shortage of things to talk about. The city will continue to buzz for a few more days.
One of the biggest announcements Monday came from Yahoo!. The company, long suspected of having [...]

Simple ideas can be the foundation to some really great products. Such is the case with search. But search can only go so far, and no matter how precise the algorithm, if you don’t know what it is you’re looking for, you’re going to be in a rut until you discover what that something is. The founders of GO2WEB20 have proven this point well, by helping searchers search via directory. Better still, GO2WEB20 is all Web 2.0, all of the time. [...]