Category Archives: Search

Not surprisingly we’re going to see much more in the way of video or “multimedia” search from the likes of Yahoo, Google and of course Microsoft, but it looks like the Blinkx Video Search is the first one out of … Continue reading →

There are few specific details in this article on CNET about IBM’s push into the Enterprise Search market, but it does hint at IBM’s commitment to “higher-margin software and services” during its transition from the PC Hardware space. “IBM is … Continue reading →

I know, I know… first post in a long time. Trust me; I haven’t abandoned the blog — more on that another time. Anyway, I just tested Google Suggest, the new Auto-Complete feature that’s currently in beta at Google. My … Continue reading →

I’m not sure about the name or whether it will be a Google killjoy, but yesterday Vivísimo open to the public their consumer search service called Clusty, which utilizes results from Yahoo’s Overture engine. At the forefront of Clusty is … Continue reading →

With Google recently releasing their IPO pricing estimates ranging between $108 to $135 per share with market capitalization between $29 billion and $36 billion, I suspect this doesn’t bode well: Update: Apparently Google’s problems are due to the latest MyDoom … Continue reading →

After a week on the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina with family I feel refreshed and recharged — perhaps not recharged enough to ride up l’Alpe d’ Huez, but I digress… During my week away there were … Continue reading →

Om Malik praises the new contextual desktop search tool called Blinkx, which is currently available in a downloadable beta client as well as a web only interface. Om goes on to cite some attractive examples such as… “BlinkX is all … Continue reading →

At this point, PGtGM looks to only be a proof-of-concept, but essentially it is destine to be a POP3 proxy for Google’s GMail. This is/will be a cool hack, but probably be a moot point once some of the rumored … Continue reading →

I’ve been disconnected all week in PeopleSoft training, but during lunch today I caught Steve Gillmor’s eWeek column from last week about Gmail where he cites a potential example of the “Google Platform” in the enterprise. “By the time the … Continue reading →

Google opened beta 2 of Google Groups. They’ve integrated it with Gmail, which gives you the ability to post to Usenet newsgroups as well as create new groups. All these “new” features are strangely reminiscent of what My Deja News … Continue reading →

My smart search buddies over at BA-Insight (who need to get their blog online!) pointed me to Carrot2, which is described as “ a system for clustering textual data“. (the site is a bit slow) Generally speaking, Carrot2 is an … Continue reading →

As some of my friends can attest one of my long-standing gripes regarding the usage of Flash has been its inability to be indexed by search engines. I suppose that argument is now moot since I just read that Google … Continue reading →

This doesn’t seem like a spicy chicken dish to me… “IBM is set to unveil an upgraded version of its enterprise-level search technology. Code-named “Masala,” the new software is an improvement on Big Blue’s DB2 Information Integrator released last year. … Continue reading →

Marcos Weskamp announced on his blog yesterday a new application called newsmap, which displays the constantly changing panorama of Google’s News Aggregator (across countries too). [IMHO: This is probably one of the most useful applications in flash I have yet … Continue reading →

Stefanie Olsen of CNET News.com pulls together a good overview of the start-ups targeting Google’s dominance. Some quotes from the article: “…Google also faces Lilliputian threats from a fast-growing group of start-ups that hope to replicate its own meteoric rise … Continue reading →