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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)
35 Million Consumers Used Web Search For Travel Planning in April 2005
In April, 35 million U.S. consumers used a search engine to initiate travel planning, and those who bought travel online ultimately spent an estimated $6.6 billion in the category during the eight week analysis period.
Bud posted this on November 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal
So, this is an interesting take on what the value of a link is based on AOL's purchase of Weblogs Inc., a blog publishing network. Are these the types of metrics we should be using in business? What price visibility?
Bud posted this on October 8, 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)
Feed Digest : Mix, convert, and syndicate RSS and Atom feeds
A service that allows you to remix feeds, creating web pages or feeds on feeds. They've broken the 10k mark with about 3 remixes per user. Requires a technical understanding to use. No archive on your own site, just theirs.
Bud posted this on September 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Can't Beat The Local Search Aggregators? Join 'Em!
Author asserts that search engines will stop listing aggregators. But why? Aggregators play an important editorial function.
Bud posted this on September 19, 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)
findability.org | ambient findability + the design of findable objects | a blog by Peter Morville
Peter Morville lives right in Ann Arbor and is interested in this class. Perhaps we should get him in.
Bud posted this on September 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
John Battelle's Searchblog: Jeremy Asks: How Do You Learn to Search?
Focuses on the human operator end of the search process, frequently ignored by technologists.
Bud posted this on September 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | 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)
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)
Local Search: A Strategy for Newspapers
Some statistics on the growth of local search
Bud posted this on August 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Talk Digger: Check who is linking to you.
Talk Digger will ask to major search engines who links to a specific URL. The results will then be processed and displayed on Talk Digger.
Bud posted this on August 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
When will blogging peak Jeremy asks
The services that aggregate bloggers' content are where the action is going to be now. Flickr. Technorati. Feedster. Pubsub. Bloglines. Blogpulse. Clusty. Blogdigger. IceRocket
Bud posted this on July 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Imitation is the surest sign of success
I disagree with Jason Calacanis. IceRocket's adoption of tagging using a format invented by technorati indicates that technorati is achieving wide marketplace acceptance. By my estimates over a million bloggers are using the technorati format.
Bud posted this on July 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
More blog search engine discussion
Gary Price over on Search Engine Watch says he does all his blog searches with Clusty. A few people have emailed me about Clusty in the past 24 hours too. So I know it's getting more popular. So, let's try it out.
Bud posted this on July 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Which Blog is Tops in Search?
Yahoo's got an interesting experiment going. They want to know: do readers find blogs via links or through search?
Bud posted this on July 18, 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)
Fred inserts Del.icio.us into the Google and Yahoo search petition discussion
Fred Wilson picks up the discussion of Yahoo and Google adding a second search tab, and presents search results for Google, Technorati, and his baby Del.icio.us.
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)
Another CEO inspired by our CEO; Bloglines vs. Technorati
By the way, I've gotta say that Bloglines is kicking everyone's behind when doing searches for who is linking to a specific URL.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Yahoo! RSS Search
Yahoo! has a lot of good data inputs for a solid database of feed content.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Micro Persuasion: Yahoo Testing Blogs and RSS Search
Shhh, don't tell anyone but you can find Yahoo's new blog and RSS search tool here.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Research Supports Aggressive SEM and SEO
Very important study. A lot of search is done even before offline purchases. Only 10% of search-related purchases occur online.
Bud posted this on February 27, 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)
SEMPO Stats On Click Fraud
This notion of click fraud is serious. Apparently, people are hired in India to do click fraud.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Charlene Li's Blog: The slippery slope of search semantics
Search does not have to be just typing into a search box. These are really ads based on information consumption patterns. Search just happens to be the most widely-known version of that.
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
All Out of Google Juice
Blogs no longer appear highly ranked on google. This seems like a fairly radical reworking. Individual posts still do well, and I come up well in blogs. Interesting.
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Searcher Behavior Prior to Making A Purchase
People search on generic terms, probably because they are trying to cast a broad net. Then they go to specifics. The key is to understand what those broad terms are.
Bud posted this on February 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) |