35 posts tagged “search”

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Cuil - the next Google ?

Oct 29, 2009
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Cuil is the world’s biggest search engine.

The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now.
Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as M$.

Google has finally broken !

Feb 6, 2009
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I just used Google to search for JavaScriptWebServices and got 51,000,000 which was completely UNEXPECTED.
It seems that Google had decided to split my single 'word' search into two separate words and if i want to stop Google 'splitting' my keywords i have to enclose them in ""'s as in "JavaScriptWebServices" and only then get the < 10 results I waqs expecting !

So when did Google start arbitarily changing users queries and how can I stop them doing it again ?

colour photo search

Dec 1, 2008
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colour photo searcher from http://www.ideeinc.com/products/piximilar/ just choose a few colours you like !

flickr (interesting cc-by-sa photos)

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/

alamy

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour/

Yahoo! Search and SEO APIs

Aug 30, 2008
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Yahoo! SEO:

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/new/mysites

Yahoo Site Search APIs:

Web 3.0 = the end of Google

Jun 8, 2008
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I hope this blog illustrates my last blog about the demise of Google !

Here are a few great links that I found via del.icio.us instead of google :

So how did i use del.icio.us to find these ?

I just did it the Web 2.0 / Social Media Network / Web 3.0 way and just looked at other links from the first 30 people in the world to del.ici.ify about the Google Earth Monster Milk Truck Game !

You might find it rewarding to add those 30 people to your del.icio.us network too !

The demise of Google

Jun 8, 2008
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/05/why-search-competition-isnt-the-point.html

Web 2.0 (or whatever the fullness of the Internet Operating System ends up being called) is far bigger than search. Yes, search is currently the most valuable and monetizable Web 2.0 application--or perhaps better-named, subsystem. But look back at 1984: Lotus was bigger and more valuable than Microsoft ($153 million in revenues to Microsoft's $100 million, and growing faster -- Lotus had tripled in size, while Microsoft had only doubled.) But we now know that Microsoft had the stronger position.

As I've said in my Web 2.0 talks from the very beginning, a platform beats an application every time.

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True search innovation will come from something that doesn't look like search. Google's video search efforts foundered, while YouTube took off. (Google was smart enough to buy YouTube quickly.) Facebook took off in an area that could be characterized as "people search." Tweetspace is becoming a hidden transmission channel for information, one that Google doesn't yet search. Everything Microsoft (and other explicit search competitors, including most specialized search startups) is incremental innovation.

Google's search dominance will be toppled by a disruptive innovation that changes the game, not by playing catch-up at the same game.

The challenges that keep Google on their toes, innovating in search, will come from outside the current system.

I think Tim O'Reilly puts this much more clearly than I have been trying to for the last two years !

flickr tag galaxy

Jun 7, 2008
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flickr tag galaxy "tag cloud" viewer actually "tag galaxy" viewer !

Here's what you'll see if you search for "ubuntu" !

Taggalaxy

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Keep clicking until you can see actual flickr photos !

Taggal2

isk-daemon content-based (visual) image search

May 19, 2008
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isk-daemon is an open source standalone server and library capable of adding content-based (visual) image searching to any image related website.

This technology allows users of any image-related website or software to sketch on a widget which image they want to find and have the website reply to them the most similar images or simply request for more similar photos at each image detail page.

Don’t forget to check out a demo of this technology.

Flickr Suggestions_1211204428671

Will Mahalo become the next Google ?

May 3, 2008
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Mahalo is a dynamic Web 3.0 search engine which is a search community created by and for "Social Media Network" and "Business Media Network"s members.

You can start today by installing and using the Mahalo Firefox AddOn which you can even configure it to dual / triple / quad post to del.icio.us (and many other social bookmarking sites) at the same time for full future-proofing your efforts !

For example I've made my start @ :

PS Its currently in BETA and they could probably use some work on handling of singulars and plurals !