This is a guest post by Nitin Karandikar, author of the Software Abstractions blog. Recently I was looking at the log files for my blog, as I regularly do, and Continue reading »

TechnologyReview has published an interview with Google's Director of Research, Peter Norvig, where it's acknowledged that the search giant hires individuals to look at search results pages and provide their Continue reading »

Blog search engine Feedster has had the following notice on its frontpage for at least a few weeks now: There is no sign of life on the site and the

Venture funded UK semantic search engine TrueKnowledge is unveiling a demo of its private beta today and looks like an interesting site to watch. One cannot help but think of

Our network blog AltSearchEngines reports that Google has around 90% search engine market share in France (well, 89.98% to be exact!). The next biggest is Yahoo ! (3.17%), followed by Continue reading »

Search guru-supreme Danny Sullivan got an answer out of Google this weekend concerning the search engine's long-suspected practice of punishing websites in search results when they are alleged to have Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Hakia_Introduces_Semantic_Highlighter_and_Scoop_Button'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Today hakia added a hakia highlighter to their “meaning-based” search engine, producing a highlighted sentence inside a search result. The Continue reading »

Let‚Äôs start from the premise that Search is ‚Äúgame-over‚Ä?. Google has won. The best explanation of Google‚Äôs dominance is in this Read/WriteWeb post. But if there is a Google-killer out Continue reading »

This week I spoke with Barney Pell, CEO of Powerset; and Melek Pulatkonak, COO of hakia. In both (separate) conversations we discussed how the Semantic Web is getting very close. Continue reading »

Written by Guest Writer Steve Spalding The idea of "Search" is a powerful concept. Whether it's guide based like Mahalo, algorithmically powered like Google or driven by something as close Continue reading »