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I had lunch with one of my favorite Internet entrepreneurs today, Mark Sawyier, the CEO of Off Campus Media. The company provides college students with apartment listings near their schools,

During my time in Boulder last week, one of the more interesting startups I was introduced to was Trada, a virtual marketplace for pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. Using Trada, advertisers and

In the late 90's, a spokesperson for the Coca Cola corporation said, "Our primary competition isn't Pepsi. Our real competition is water, tea, nimbupani and Pepsi... in that order." While

This week thousands of visitors arrived at ReadWriteWeb thinking we were the new Facebook and asking us how to login. The phenomenon came about astweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/02/were-still-not-facebook-lessons.php';tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; mainstream

If you've ever believed that semantic search is meant exclusively for researchers, then Meaning Tool might prove you wrong. Through Popego, the semantic search engine allows you to add your

About 18 months ago, we wrote about an obscure search startup from Germany called FAROO. We believed that its radical alternative, using peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, had a shot at being

At first glance, the phrase "dream achievement service" conjures images of people in head scarves listening to self-help tapes. Nevertheless, in the case of semantic search service Dorthy, "dream achievement"

Earlier today we posted about Answers.com's rise as a revenue and page-view generator. Through user-generated Q&A posted to WikiAnswers, the company is crowdsourcing heaps of daily content, ranking high in

Trying to explain Wowd, a Silicon Valley-based search venture, is a buzzword extravaganza. Using cloud architecture and crowdsourced data on web pages, this real-time discovery and recommendation engine ranks pages

What's the easiest travel website? The best test prep software? The most powerful and secure online payment processor? How would you find the answers to these questions, at least from

Collecta, the real-time search startup we reviewed in May and again in June, is releasing their API today and announcing that the developer of the best application will receive a

Stockholm-based startup Spezify is a visual search engine that impresses with relevant results displayed in a visual but still functional way. Founded by Felix af Ekenstam and Per Persson, digital

Appealing to users' laziness is a two-sided coin. On the one hand, you risk offending users who like to think of themselves as essentially industrious, on-top-of-it, finger-on-the-pulse go-getters. On the

Perhaps the biggest problem with natural language search is that it's incredibly difficult to try and automate machine-assigned ontologies. Essentially, machines just don't get it. This is precisely the