There is a big cultural gap between Internet, particularly search engines that rely on text, and video communities. There is an article (Thanks, Rajesh) in Advertising Age that talks about Comcast having ambitions to become another Yahoo, or better, in…
Long Tail (is Not So Big)
WSJ has a piece by Lee Gomes today (July 26) with the title: It may be long time before the long tail is wagging the web. He says Let’s start this discussion where Mr. Anderson starts his book, with his…
Gesture based image navigation
Microsoft developed gesture based image navigation technology but is licensing it to a start-up for commercializing and applying it to specific applications. Interesting. Considering strong activity in gesture-based interaction in the computer vision community, I expect to see many interesting…
SEraja Updates 060712
Seraja is making good progress. Yesterday and today I saw progress in all areas – from technology development to content enrichment. In about a month, the Seraja site will see launch of the new much improved version. Search environment, results…
Search Infrastructure
NYT had an interesting article on Google’s inventor culture. An interesting little known fact about Google is: “Google is as much about infrastructure as it is about the search engine,” said Martin Reynolds, an analyst with the Gartner Group. “They…