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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.Do you ever get tired of downright stupidity? I know you do and I sympathize whole heartedly. In the technology field of writing we often wrestle with complex and difficult to explain innovations and services. [...]

Today my friends at hakia.com announced an additional §5 million investment, this brings the total investment in the meaning based search engine to $21 million so far. Hakia has perhaps the best chance of breaking the semantic search barrier this year and these additional funds are earmarked for developing a semantic advertising platform. Additionally, hakia [...]

Melek Pulatkonak - President of hakia - posted something extraordinary on my Facebook wall today. To be honest, the video was so profoundly inspiring and touching that I could scarcely watch it. This kind gesture made me consider what I have tried to convey to people these last 12 months. I thought about how we [...]

I had another talk with Barney Pell - founder and former CEO of Powerset today. I had written a post earlier this month on Profy about my perception of the recent management changes, and was anxious to talk about Powerset’s progress. Powerset is one of the most promising new search engines which I have covered [...]