The competition among major search engines is intense, to say the least. Here is a very interesting article about this: http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=4628&sid=-1&t=special_reports_convergence2005
Desktop search and revenue stream
Finding real ‘Agre ka petha’ in cyberspace
Search engines are working very hard to index all knowledge that exists in electronic form. In fact, the recent efforts by Google and others to digitize old documents in libraries so those documents could also be indexed is very interesting.…
A course Outline on ‘Search Systems’
Next quarter at UC Irvine starts in the beginning of April 2005. I am introducing a course on ‘Search Systems’ for Information and Computer Sciences students. This will be a course in which I expect to see both under-graduate and…
First step by a major search engine
Now it was the turn of MSN to announce and do something to get some limelight. So they announced their new search tools. There are several minor things added to their site that will improve their site. The really important…
So much talk about so little!
It is not uncommon that media will talk so much about so little that you wonder whether you are the only one who does not get it. But that is usually not the case. Media definitely has the herd mentality. …