Not Under the Influence
By Alina on Jul 15, 2008 in Featured, search | 5 Comments
As the search saga continues, rumor has it Microsoft is just about to announce it did a little shopping and acquired Powerset – one of the leaders in natural language search. On the other hand, Microsoft’s future plans of buying Yahoo’s search functionalities no longer seem dead and buried, as they’ve teamed up with [...]
By Phil Butler on Apr 22, 2008 in Featured, Uncategorized, search | 2 Comments
Hakia, perhaps the Web’s front-runner in the search race to relevance, just won the coveted Webware 100 award for “Search and Reference”. Of course Webware 100 recognizes the very best in Web 2.0 sites and hakia has been one of the leading innovators in the quest for semantic and more relevant search since last [...]
By Phil Butler on Feb 26, 2008 in Featured, search | 0 Comments
Voting started the day before yesterday on this years Webware 100. I cast my votes early for some of this years greatest Web 2.0 applications. I must say my all time favorite - hakia - is up there with some good competition in the “search and reference” category, but in my mind there is [...]
By Phil Butler on Feb 13, 2008 in Featured, web 3.0 | 2 Comments
If Money And Greed Only Hadn’t Spoiled It
What in the world happened to the promise of Web 2.0? Whatever it was, we are now bogged down in mud hole only slightly resembling the “El Dorado” painted for us over the last 18 months. Innovation after innovation have failed to live up to expectations. Still [...]
By Phil Butler on Jan 25, 2008 in Featured, search | 21 Comments
As the search engine race heats up, more and more evidence surfaces to the effect that this year will be the year of search. From Jimmy Wales and Jason Calacanis squaring off at the Digital Life Design conference to Google’s “behind the scenes” search elements - the quest for the next search is in full [...]
