Phil Butler Unplugged

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I strolled over to ReadWriteWeb to see what Richard and the gang were up to, and behold they broke out the crystal ball before New Year! As usual the writers at RWW share some insightful and interesting predictions for 2008. I thought I should take the opportunity to share some of these and perhaps add [...]