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March 30, 2006
I recently began looking for a new job. I haven't done this now for six years, and in the meantime I've been in the position of hiring manager many times. One of the first things I do after I decide...
December 13, 2005
Happy Christmas Google, Yahoo! and MSN - Alexa (Amazon) are opening up search to those who don't have billions to spend on infrastructure. Interesting... [Via]...
March 01, 2005
Neat. Yahoo! give us an API to programmatically play with their data. Google did this a good while ago, but Yahoo! have gone one better with 5000 queries a day (as opposed to 1000) and lets us get at Image,...
February 23, 2005
In keeping with their ongoing crusade to organise the world's information, Google have introduced a new search operator to deliver movie specific results. On first impressions the results seem to be similar to those produced by the likes of MetaCritic...
February 08, 2005
They are a busy bunch over at the 'plex aren't they. Google Maps is pretty neat on first impressions. Cooler than other map folks anyway. Looks like it is only US for now. Here are the features (from Google Maps...
February 05, 2005
In the beginning there was Yahoo! and then the search engine of choice was AltaVista before Google took the crown and has ruled more or less benignly for the last few years. I was just looking at the stats for...
January 30, 2005
I was just thinking it would be interesting to know how the election in Iraq is being covered by media in other places, like say Iran or Azerbaijan. English language media that is, my Azerbaijani was never all that great....
January 14, 2005
The blog tracking tool Technorati has followed the lead of (and backfilled with data from) Flickr, del.iciol.us and others with an implementation of the tag taxonomy for blogposts. This could be a useful way of getting to information but I...
November 08, 2004
An article in The Herald gives an overview of Speegle, a talking search engine developed by a company called CEC Systems on the lovely Morrison Street, here in Edinburgh. Unfortunately for CEC, I'm not sure that they will be able...
November 06, 2004
Joi points to a revamped Technorati with new features and a redesign. Technorati has been a bit buggy of late, but recent moves including Joi taking on a proper role there hopefully heralds a new era of cool....
October 25, 2004
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says, “We are not building a browser” in answer to much speculation which was put to bed by the release of desktop search last week. Speculation since then has been limited, though authoritative. The browser is...
October 14, 2004
Google announced this afternoon the launch of a desktop search application perhaps in response to Microsoft's recent offering Lookout (An addin to Outlook to search e-mail, contacts, calendar, and filesystem). Desktop search is undoubtedly going to be a big thing,...
October 13, 2004
Google have now officially announced the recent launch of Froogle UK - the shopping comparison site which has been available for a good while in the US.More Britons than ever are shopping online, so we wanted to offer the broadest...
September 25, 2004
Seems I failed to notice the launch of Blogory which is to blogposts as Findory is to news articles. It's seems to work the same way as Findory, personalising the posts shown to you based on your click history. [via...
September 23, 2004
It seems that my bond with Yahoo! has reached an emotional level; a level where they actually managed to make me laugh out loud. You see I wrote to them on the 3rd of August (when I also wrote about...
August 19, 2004
(via John Battelle) Yahoo! launches ysearchblog.com with an opening letter from Jeff Weiner, SVP Yahoo! Search & Marketplace. Jeremy has a FAQ, Mike Manuel points out that Y! links to G!, Steve Rubel says "Amen" to comments and trackback being...
August 03, 2004
Via Jeremy Z & John B - Yahoo! has launched a Local Yahoo! beta search product. Google also have a local search beta and Ask today announced a partnership with Citysearch to provide a local search component to ask.com. John...
July 28, 2004
Via John Battelle, Microsoft (MSFT) have launched a beta version of a News Aggregation & Search Tool, Newsbot. It is powered by MSN Search Technology and rivals Google News (also beta) as a one-stop news shop. Greg Linden (CEO &...
