Category: Search,
edgeio – is becoming a search engine, for “stuff”
Over at the edgeio blog I have posted the first insight into where we are going with edgeio search. It has been about 9 months since we launched edgeio. We now have a dedicated search team and this is their first push. It is not yet perfect but it is a vast improvement on what…
Is scraping and crawling stealing?
A spat has blown up over the weekend regarding Oodle and Vast.com “scraping” content from 3rd party sites and re-purposing it inside their environments. This essay is my reaction to the spat. As a founder of edgeio I clearly have an interest in the answer to the question. edgeio does not scrape or crawl. All…
Google Q4 2005 Earnings – Stock slumps 15% in after market
Google had a great quarter (earnings up 82% year over year and revenues up more than 22% quarter over quarter). But they missed Wall Street expectations by more than 15%. The stock took a 15% hit in the aftermarket. It is now down almost $100 from its previous high. My personal opinion – huge buying…
Beattie on RealNames
Russell Beattie ay Yahoo has a lengthy post about RealNames. It’s a generous and thoughtful piece. Thanks for the link Russell. There are a couple of things worth knowing. Firstly RealNames didn’t really crash in the bubble. At least not directly. We were profitable and growing fast (about 120% a quarter back in Q1 2002.…
Podcast: Google’s Earnings call
Google had it’s first earnings call Thursday. If you are interested in either search or advertising online it is really worth an hour of your time. Lot’s of questions out there. Is Google overheated? Are they doomed to fail? Are they the EBay of Data? Listen and decide for yourself. Then it hit me. This…
Charlene Li of Forrester on Search
Charlene Li of Forrester has a new Blog. I met Charlene briefly at Web 2.0. She has comments on the search panel – specifically noting the large agreement between the panelists on what the future direction of search is from a features and functionality point of view. Then she hits us with a killer comment:…
Article of the Week
RealNames’ fall may doom keywords Surveys show IT buyers, sellers have different views of market recoverySenator Lieberman to introduce broadband billOracle, Dell, others, in Linux partnershipNeoteris upgrades IVE with more app supportOpinion: What HP thinks of guys like usAll of today’s news By Carolyn Duffy MarsanNetwork World, 05/27/02 When keywords became available in Microsoft’s…