Not Under the Influence
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 Jan 25, 2008 in Featured, search | 22 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 [...]
By Phil Butler on Nov 21, 2007 in search, technology | 2 Comments
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 [...]
