Is Google Being Evil? Ajax Search
It seems Google is testing a new AJAX powered search on US Google searches. So what? Well it seems a standard Google search returns the url http://www.google.com/search?q=cloudave when searching for...
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Why Bing is Gaining on Google
OK, I admit, today is humor day. I got special permission from Ben to do one more, then we’re back to regular programming. Bing is gaining on Google. Do you know why? Check these Google image search...
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Has Twitter Finally Killed Summize?
Since today appears to be Twitter-day (which day isn’t?), I’m adding my 2 cents. Summize has always been fast and reliable. In fact in the days of the worst Twitter outage, with Reply and other...
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Bing Visual Search: Just A Novelty?
Microsoft today announced Bing Visual Search, a visual way of searching the web. Being completely satisfied with what I am getting with Google, this is just bells and whistles for me. With Visual...
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Bing – Google Mashups in Abundance
Congratulations to the WSJ for discovering Bingle, a mashup of Bingle and Google that displays search results side-by-side. It’s really handy, but nothing new and nothing out of ordinary. There’s...
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Is Google the Next Media Company?
Think about this for a moment, Google mail, YouTube, Google book search, soon to come Google Wave, and a plethora of other stuff, the only thing that Google is missing is a distribution contract with...
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Use Your Company Blog to Catch Search Term Typos
If your company or product name can be misspelled, this is for you. At Spigit, a prospective customer related this to us recently. A few months ago, they had heard of Spigit in one of the usual ways –...
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I love you Google Wave
My love hate relationship with Google just switched over to love today as I just got my Google Wave account invite today, and am going to spend the rest of the day playing around with this puppy to see...
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How Should Tweets Be Ranked in Search Engine Results?
Anyone remember when Loic LeMeur had the temerity to suggest Twitter rank its search results by the number of followers people have? His post, with 109 comments and reaction from Michael Arrington,...
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Twitter to Clean Up Trending Topic Searches – Is This that Reputation Thing?
On Twitter’s blog, they announced an initiative to clean up the spammy tweets that often appear for trending topics. As described from the post: Today we’re starting to experiment with improvements to...
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Blogging Those Tweets? Get Rid of the Nofollows
A regular habit I have is to blog My Ten Favorite Tweets for each week. These are my own tweets, and they mostly contain links to interesting things during the past seven days. One thing I’ve always...
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Google Real-Time Tweet Search Identifies the Tech Elite
Want to know if you’re truly in the technology elite? Let Google tell you! Try this: Go to Google Type in your name and the word ‘twitter’ (e.g. hutch carpenter twitter) Look at the results If you see...
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Three Designs for Presenting Tweets in Search Results
In a recent post, I described some ways in which tweets should be ranked in search results. A good follow-on question is… How should tweets be presented in search results? It’s an interesting question...
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In the Future We’ll All Have Online Reputation Scores
In a recent interview with EMC’s Stu Miniman about the future of the web, I predicted that in 20 years, we’ll all have online reputation scores. Little badges, numbers that communicate our level of...
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On Paywalls, Search and the Risk of Irrelevance
So AccMan (Dennis Howlett) has decided to go down a monetization route, in addition to being funded by a vendor content widget, he’s looking at monetizing by charging for a small percentage of...
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Google Maps Experiment with Hotel Prices – Just Remember to Check In
How many times were you looking for the right hotel at the right price, close enough to your conference, customer or just a particular location? Finding the right one typically includes juggling...
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Universal, Actionable Search: Zoho’s Improved Answer to “Where’s My Stuff?”
Search, Don’t Organize - is the Google mantra, meaning we should stop wasting time filing away information in folders, sorting, labeling it for later retrieval, when it’s so much easier to search /...
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GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth… in Search of Revenue.
I’ve been long-time Gmail fan, having used it from the very early days, for almost 5 years now. The key reasons why I switched and have stuck with the service ever since were the productivity...
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ComputeNext: Google For Compute Resources
I recently had a conversation with a stealth cloud startup called ComputeNext which got me fired up because they are doing something that I have been advocating here in this space, emergence of an open...
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Surely the computer should do that?
Computer rendering of the Chicago Spire. This is not the current design as of July 12, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We have become accustomed to the simple yet all-powerful search box. ‘Advanced’...
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