How Microsoft Missed The Disruptive Innovation In Paid Search - fascinating tale with a moral #innovation #search

how search engines view Twitter. i knew i was right to avoid hashtags.

"For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google's algorithms—rigorous and efficient equations that parse practically every byte of online activity to build a dispassionate atlas of the online world. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search. It is a complete rethinking of how we navigate the online world, one that places Facebook right at the center. In other words, right where Google is now."

"That’s a business equation to solve, and WebFountain showed that marketing hype can’t always overcome poor performance."

still not getting FriendFeed, but still not willing to write it off

another one of the Ajax home page entrants. nicely designed, though.

i know a lot of people that are likely to be interested in this

trying this out; wish they could post them into my regular feed instead of just mobile clients

i'll give this a whirl - Beagle been iffy for me lately, and speaking of: what does this mean for that project, i wonder?

"Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs...caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as Tomcat."

"In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire...to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines or social networking sites' member lookup functions."

i'm very sorry to hear this. i didn't know Jim, but many people i do know did, and spoke highly of him as a technologist and a person. my thoughts are with his family.

+5

everyone and their mother is pointing here; i'd be willing to buy the sky is falling bit more if i saw hard numbers proving that making open data available was a losing proposition economically - plus, we need to ask who's using this?

interesting; will have to see if other services follow suit. eBay certainly will not, but Amazon, perhaps?

"It can be installed as a storage engine type on MySQL, and from what I hear can beat the pants off of MySQL's built-in full text search in some cases." - i need to look at this more carefully; there are lots of folks looking for this function

the developer of this - a Stanford student, by the looks of it - sent this over; if you're at BU, Harvard, MIT, UT Austin, Emory, etc, give it a whirl. it'll show you what's still open in terms of food - nice

more props for flat files from the Topix guys

instant mashups, of a sort - not blended, but side by side - neat extension to yubnub

good matrix of blog search tools capabilities from Dave

GNOME gets tagging? we'll see, but looks cool for now

Brad on continuous partial attention

"If Google could make this a full-fledged, no-reload AJAX app, it’ll make Del.icio.us look like a child’s toy" - umm...what? how you figure? it's not social, it's tied to search, it hasn't got an API, del.icio.us has Ajax, and it doesn't have the same

seems a little extreme, but i did have to remove my home phone number from Google a while ago

sweet new OneNote features; just wish the format wasn't closed

Josh says Google Blog Search might compel full text: one can only hope

Chetan sees Google Blog Search as a look at the Google of the future - i tend to agree

issue with Feedburner feeds - we're in the same boat

well, scratch one player from the technorati sweepstakes ;) - not impressed with the results from this so far

ZDNet, September 1st, 2005

O'Reilly responds to ad rigging charges

continuing to debate the value of tags, vs search, regrettably

my thoughts on this are simple: blogs are the virtual representation of people, and thus - like people - are best discovered through other people. it's not the only way, but still the best way IMO

lot of folks have linked to this, and while i glazed over a bit when i saw the math, it's fascinating (via Udell)

haven't upgraded my Beagle yet, but am looking forward to it

"block" would be a killer search enginer feature, at least for me

Google hacking for free tunes (via Dark Side of the Moon)

finally, a solid use case for LinkedIn

a very reasoned take on Google Search History privacy concerns from an A9 developer

christopher hammers Google's removal of WordPress from its indexes

good summation of why Yahoo is cycling back into favor

great post from Alex Bosworth on how API T's and C's affect developer adoption

everyone's talking about this one, and certainly i agree it's a concern, but i don't see MS being able to put the clamp down as easily here - particularly if they continue to pursue an IE-centric strategy

the usual good take from Battelle on GDS 1.0

Google trying to tap the power of the community for GDS

interview with Mayer from Google

deconstructing Google Maps

check out this Google Maps functionality - unreal

there's got to be an easier way to do this. Google's Keyhole probably isn't perfect due to the angle, but man, snapping each and every one must be a killer

what is WinFS but the ultimate search-ready filesystem?

this could be sweet - search Red Sox, and get all mentions? tremendous

good luck to Isohunt

Dare's further thoughts on desktop search and WinFS

interesting look at the economics of desktop search (via /.)

anyone giving odds on how long it takes the MPAA to sue? (via Winer)

Eleanor on podcasting - very insightful critique

a question that nobody seems to be asking is how do we fix this?

News.com "perils of being on top" piece on Google - includes a quote and link to tecosystems

a rare Beagle mention in the press

now *this* is a legit GDS security threat

interesting take on Microsoft, Netscape and Google

E-Mail and IM search make sense because people use them so much. Digital content search makes sense, too, for reasons I stated yesterday in this blog. Beyond these content types, I wonder if maybe vendors have put too much focus in the wrong place." - cor

somehow i missed these already present search/indexing features in the desktop - what other cool functionality is in there that's lying dormant?

so they reinvented the wheel and built another Outlook search/indexing interface? why? was the lookout stuff architecturally flawed?

Mary Jo aggregates the MSN news flying around today

this apparently is what Scoble's been teasing the past week or so - looks to be slightly better than GDS, if the specifics here are accurate

MS researcher's take on metadata versus ad hoc search - some interesting conclusions

metadata just hype? some thoughts on how metadata isn't the solution it's made out to be

"It's taking 3.5 hours just to read my feeds now" - information overload indeed. i have a tough time seeing how this is sustainable, as i'm getting bogged down with a tenth the number of his feeds

Yahoo's equiv of Google Labs (via m040601)

new desktop search player

search your del.icio.us links via Firefox (via m040601)

winer hammers the new MSN search rollout

Microsoft's Google-killer (via Winer)

interesting pushback on the GDS = WinFS concept from a softie (though not one on the WinFS team)

interesting roundup of perspectives on GDS, etc (via atariboy)

Linux based GDS alternative

MS dev's take on Google (via InsideGoogle)

good question - anyone know the answer?

definitely will be giving this a whirl