Tag Archives: yahoo

Real Time Search Challenges

Posted on June 26, 2009 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Making Associations Based on What Is Familiar

Posted on June 4, 2009 by

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, … Continue reading →

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Do We Need Innovation in Web Search?

Posted on April 26, 2009 by

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 5, 2009 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Internet Traffic Funnel – Where do you want to be?

Posted on January 22, 2009 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Traditional Publishers in 2008 – Economic Reality

Posted on March 30, 2008 by

The Situation A few weeks ago I covered the negative economic reality of video based advertising and the conflict between TV ads and Internet video ads.  To clarify, it is negative for the major networks and those that benefit from … Continue reading →

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Google/Yahoo Aware – a new product

Posted on March 5, 2008 by

This is a mobile product enabling you to get information real time about sounds and sights in your environment. I’ve been quietly prototyping and testing this concept. So far it’s not primetime at all, but the concept and function is … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! and Microsoft – A Personal Connection

Posted on February 1, 2008 by

Yeah, yeah, by now you have the news. Microsoft wants to spend $44bn to buy Yahoo! Personally, I want this to happen.  Professionally, I think it will drive search, online media, and social networking to new vistas (hahahaha, good pun!). … Continue reading →

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Consumer Grid Computing

Posted on December 19, 2007 by

Grid is here and it’s a game changer.  Not today, maybe not totally in 08, but certainly in the nearish future. What is grid computing (cloud computing), you ask?  well, it’s lots of things.  Generally it refers to the idea … Continue reading →

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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Everyone Else – How Fast Can You Go

Posted on December 17, 2007 by

There’s just more and more analysis and speculation about how critical it is to be fast. Slashdot linked to this fairly decent NYtimes article about Google and Microsoft.  One of the key points, which I actually agree with, is that … Continue reading →

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