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Jon Udell: Dueling simplicities
The key point here is the creation of a standard way to interact with a database using XML-based protocols. This has the potential to be really huge. We could do bit320 without the whole learning XSQL thing.
Bud posted this on November 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slashdot | Search Engine Results Relatively Fair
"The Economist and PhysicsWeb report on a study from Indiana University claiming that search engines have an egalitarian effect that gives new pages a greater chance to be discovered, compared to what would be the case in the absence of search engines."
Bud posted this on November 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A VC: Google Is Lame
But in many of their recent initiatives, Google has introduced a delay between submit and display. And that's just lame in this day and age of instant recall.
Bud posted this on November 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Om Malik’s Broadband Blog — » Web 2.0 Exit… what is that?
Suggests that everyone doing Web 2.0 projects is really just doing unpaid product development for Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. Maybe. Some of the commenters argue that there are viable revenue models.
Bud posted this on November 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Bubblegeneration - Evil Corporations Only
"you may receive 70-80% of revenues generated by ads on your blog, but the reality is that your blog increases the value of the Google ad network by a greater amount than the revenues you generate", so Google is not 'fairly' sharing its network effects.
Bud posted this on November 6, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google spam suite primer
Niall works for a technorati competitor, but he does an excellent job pointing up the flaws in google's ecosystem. The question, as always, is what is the alternative.
Bud posted this on October 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Workbench: Throw the Book at Google
"As an armchair copyright lawyer, I can't figure out how it matters that Google grabbed one book with a bot and grabbed the other with a scanner ... If Google Print is illegal, wouldn't Google be illegal as well?" Good point!
Bud posted this on October 4, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Microsoft Quashes Search Relevancy Report
The important point here is that microsoft is not making a dent in the search business, and by extension one can understand why they re-orged. Competition has moved off of the desktop and into search. A more general issue of how you measure performance.
Bud posted this on September 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google's Big Problem, or Google vs the Social
Google search is algorithmic, meaning no explicit editors. However, Google's use of links to determine relevance means there are many implicit editors. I wonder if the novelty problem the author mentions is not due to freshness, a real google problem.
Bud posted this on September 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google Responds to Authors Guild Lawsuit
I don't really get why publishers would not be interested in this. It makes their work findable. Some commenters suggest publishers are doing it because of precedent. Hiding your IP under a bushel just does not make sense in this case.
Bud posted this on September 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
TIME.com: Blogging 2.0 -- Sep. 26, 2005 -- Page 1
"There are millions of weblogs (blogs for short) online, but many never get read. One reason: blog overload makes it hard to find the good stuff."
Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google to Put Copyright Laws to the Test - Yahoo! News
You wonder why people object to Google's scanning works. It just makes them more findable in the electronic age.
Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Googlebombing Now A "Prank" And Not Web's Opinion, Says Google
Links are the currency of the web. If you interlink, you gain visibility, period.
Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Mailinator:Spam Map
Uses google maps and their spam database to map spam. Can this itself be gamed?
Bud posted this on September 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Google Blog Search
An extremely good blog searching tool by google. Search for LearningRemix
Bud posted this on September 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MBA Bootcamp Changes Local Web Search Landscape
We ran a bootcamp where Michigan MBAs used “Web 2.0” technologies to compete with a prominent local business for searches on its targeted keywords. Bootcamp sites beat the local company in just under half of the searches and placed on the first page o
Bud posted this on August 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
In This Battle, Size Does Matter: Google Responds to Yahoo Index Claims
As I posted earlier, Yahoo's claim of indexing more than 20 billion items ruffled more than a few feathers across the web, and nowhere more distinctly than at Google.
Bud posted this on August 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Adsense Update
In February, I was generating 2,000 Adsense ad views per day and was making north of $5/day on a good day. Today, I am generating over 8,000 Adsense ad views per day and making less than $4/day on a good day. Some of this is due to the RSS issue, but ev
Bud posted this on July 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders - - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog
But if you examine Google's products closely, you may notice a surprising pattern: Google is attempting to organize the world's information without folders.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Yahoo Search vs. Google and Technorati: Link Counts and Analysis
In what I'm sure will become a heavily linked to article, Tristan Louis offers up his recent analysis.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Folksonomy makes tag aggregators king of search rankings
Technorati tag aggregation pages are achieving top ten search results for significant, niche terms like podcasting, folksonomy, and blogosphere. Technorati's introduction of the seemingly obscure reltag microformat is at the root of its rise in the search
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Improved Google Sitemap Template
Anders Jacobsen has just posted a new Google SiteMap template which adds correct Last Modified dates to the output. Combined with Cameron Bulock's templates for category- or date-based sitemaps, these new templates are even more full-featured than the ori
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blog Search
The comments indicate some frustration with Technorati and rightly so.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Where 2.0: A Collection of Map Hacking Goodies
In the wake of the APIs announced at Where 2.0, we have a flood of new map hacks. Via Phil Torrone and sundry del.icio.us tags, I give you:
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Protect your site from Google's new toolbar
A nice hack to protect yourself from the google toolbar adding ads to your site.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Is Google AutoLink Patent-Pending By Microsoft?
The google autolink toolbar feature appears tied to proprietary Microsoft patents. This will be an interesting battle to witness. The patent seems absurd.
Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Trying the New Google Crowbar
An extremely well thought-out critique of the google tool bar which alters web pages you are viewing to add links that commercially profit Google. I was somewhat on the fence on this, but now feel it is a bad idea. Google has no right to alter content a
Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Experimenting with Picasa and Hello
In my book, the brain-dead interface of blogger wins for novices. You can get people on and doing it with almost no effort. It's nice to see that additional features are added with that guiding concept in mind.
Bud posted this on February 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Mapping Google
Google is becoming a web services company using data from its giant database. Note how they force access through the browser's html interface. That's where they make their money.
Bud posted this on February 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Pay Per Click Costs Still Rising
PPC costs are rising. Now maybe pushing a move back toward traditional SEO.
Bud posted this on February 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How Much Are Top Rankings Worth?
A really great review of the value of search engine rankings. The unasked question is the extent to which you should really compete on search engine rankings. What you really want is traffic.
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
AdWords Year in Review
A neat internal Google presentation on how their adwords campaign has progressed over the past year. They are really targeting analytics at their customers so they know exactly what things cost.
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google Local Moves To Home Page But Stays In Beta
Personally, I don't see the problem with things remaining in beta. Perhaps it actually adds cachet. Hey, I'm on the cutting edge. Local search is interesting, but seems tough to pull off.
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Guardian on Gates, Google and the battle for the way we think.
With search engines dominating navigation, their algorithms necessarily bias what we view. This in turn alters our perceptions. Is there search diversity out there? Where is the easy-to-use metaservice? Would this be allowed by the main engines?
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
a little ludwig goes a long way: Blog Business Summit
Wonders about the cycle: Google drives people to your site and then pays you for people clicking on their ads. Essentially, google is outsourcing content creation and taking money for navigation.
Bud posted this on January 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tracking Overture Campaigns with Google AdWords
An interesting way to track adwords performance.
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Fighting blog comment spam: what companies need to know
Charlene Li notes that the new Google method for stopping comment SPAM will not stop people just looking for comment real estate on popular blogs. The real underlying issue is the crimp that comment SPAM puts on interactivity.
Bud posted this on January 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slasdot debates the future of internet news
The author tries to suggest that Google adsense is paying for blogs. Which blogs? It would appear that advertising revenue cannot itself support blogs. Can blogs with no revenue model, even, become media?
Bud posted this on January 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Report: Google to Put Kibosh on Blog Comment Spam
This is a technical solution to comment spam that requires the cooperation of weblog publishers. Does the approach require too much collaboration to work? This solution seems to put humans back into the equation, driving down scalability.