I played with the new ask.com. It has really become new — many features from Ask Jeeves are gone and the new site is much improved in many respects. I particularly liked their maps. You can get driving and walking…
New Ask.com
Kosmix — One more from Stanford
There have been many articles since Kosmix was announced starting from touting them as another Google to another vertical search engine. Here is another interesting take from Stanford perspective — well the founders of Kosmix (like founders of Yahoo and…
Searching Maps
Many people believe that search engines are going far beyond maps. This is true only partially. Search engines can not really search in maps. Most so called searches are locating information on maps — which is really showing the location…
From Gopher to Google for EventWeb
In the context of how some new things are evolving and emerging in the Web related areas, it is very interesting to revisit how the Web evolved and transformed our lives for ever. Just a little more than a decade…
Academia and Visual Maps
Cyrus Shahabi at USC is doing a project that shows the future of how maps will be used in information systems. He showed me the demo of this system about a month ago in Singapore at the ACM Multimedia conference.…