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Real Time Search Challenges

Posted in data mining, economics, product development, programming, science, search, software, tagged , , , , on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Methinks the best experience will end up combining real time search with regular web search.  Yes, it’s nice to have unfiltered immediate information in certain situations like breaking news or emergencies.  Outside of that synthesis is essential to keep the noise to signal ratio down.
I don’t so much mind the metaphor used on TechCrunch today [...]

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Making Associations Based on What Is Familiar

Posted in Web 3.0, product development, search, software, web 2.0, wolfram, tagged , , , , , , on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Whether it’s “valid” or not humans (and probably most animals) make associations of new, unknown things with similar-seeming known things.  In fact, this is the basis of communication.
In the case of discussing new websites/services/devices like Wolfram|Alpha, Bing, Kindle, iPhone, Twitter and so on it’s perfectly reasonable to associate them to their forebears.  Until users/society gets [...]

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What Is Wolfram|Alpha Really?

Posted in science, search, social science, software, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here is one of the best blog posts on putting Wolfram|Alpha into perspective:
Asking which result is “right” misses the point. Google is a search engine; it did exactly what it’s supposed to do. It isn’t making any any assumptions about what you’re looking for, and will give you everything the cat dragged in. If you’re [...]

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Do We Need Innovation in Web Search?

Posted in advertising, data mining, search, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

No. Not really.
This is the main reason most new search engines fail.  This is also why refreshes to existing search engines with radical features don’t work particularly well either.
It’s really a misconception that search engines could be made better.  Common discussion suggests one day the search engines will magically find what we need if only [...]

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Google and Eric Schmidt on the Economy and Google Future

Posted in advertising, algorithm, behavior, finance, marketing, product development, social networks, social science, speculation, vertical media, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is a pretty useful data dump from Google’s CEO
Economic situation pretty dire. Combination of what we’ve seen does not appear to have a bottom. People are using the Internet more. Obviously will affect online ad market because our systems are so tightly tuned. It will eventually be reflected in CPC, CPM. We are not [...]

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Techcrunch Lies, Damned Lies – Up and To the Right????

Posted in Statistics, advertising, metrics, vertical media, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ah, TechCrunch.  You whipped out the old Excel and made the industry famous Up And To The Right Chart.
There is no strong conclusion to draw from this very limited data set.  The only piece of interesting data is:  of the big 4 media companies presented here only Google has any sustained growth and makes up [...]

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Internet Traffic Funnel – Where do you want to be?

Posted in Statistics, analysis of behavior, behavior, business strategy, vertical media, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Failure to understand how users and money flow through the Internet costs media and etailers a lot of money every day.  There are huge misconceptions about where the “value” actually lives for user data, advertising performance and profit margins on all this high tech.
The following figures attempt to disambiguate some of the confusion.  The summarized [...]

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Inauguration Day Cost to Google

Posted in advertising, google, search, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Check out this bit of info from the Official Google Blog!
Based on their graph of searches per hour and assuming at $5-7 eCPM on searches  and an estimate of 500,000,000-1,000,000,000 searches per day (or 21,000,000 to 42,000,000 searches per hour)* ….
Google lost over 20,000,000 queries during the inauguration or $100,000-140,000 on search.
Assuming a similar loss [...]

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The Next Google?

Posted in algorithm, intelligent agent, jargon, product development, science, social networks, software, speculation, tagged , , , , , on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

[warning: This is a fairly "duh, I know all this" post for some people.  I just wanted to get out an accumulation of thoughts on the topic.  The interesting stuff is closer to the bottom. ]
It’s pretty safe to say that Google is the current king of technology and innovation.  No it doesn’t have everything [...]

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Planet Google Review

Posted in Book Reviews, business strategy, search, tagged , , , , , on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Planet Google by Randall Stross
This book is two things: boring and generic.  As with so many “tell all” business books, this is nothing more than a collection of press release and business articles glued together with a not-so-insider narrative.
Stross provides us little insight and only leaves us with the rather benign self prescribed prediction from [...]

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