Today was a interesting day in search related business space. First ASK Jeeves was acquired by Barry Dillard¡¯s company InterActiveCorp for $1.85B. Then came the news that Flickr was acquired by Yahoo. Finally it was announced that Snapfish was acquired…
Interesting day in Search business
Power of (or limitations of) legacy thinking
Google maps have resulted in a good deal of excitement clearly reflected in several newspaper articles as well as lots of buzz in blogosphere. Most people like Google maps because it makes navigation of maps very easy. It also allows…
Semantic Web
Semantic web has been championed by Sir Time Barners-Lee and backed strongly by W3C. It has attracted good amount of research attention by researchers, particularly those in the AI community. It does have a strong AI flavor of being able…
Searching in ‘Real World’
Most of our searches are in real world. Yes, Suzi, it may be difficult to believe that if Google does not find something, then it does not mean that it does not exist!! Google does a good job, but it…
Uday Sengupta
I came back from Germany and came to know that Dr. Uday Sengupta has left us after a battle with cancer. Uday was a brilliant man who cared about this world. He was involved in founding a laser company, Cymer,…