4 days ago
Linkorama : Next Mobile Opportunities - Thus, together, the Right of Way model can generate global revenues (in 2 years) equivalent to that of Paid Search in 2005. Put another way, the mobile monetisation (version 2: Subscriptions Right of Way) lags Internet monetisation (version 2: Paid Search
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22 days ago
Linkorama : 49% Use Search Daily - I wonder if its the same half that use social media
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29 days ago
Rod Begbie : Political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology - Google has a first stab at making video content searchable, across a selection of political speeches. Will be interesting to see how well this works. #
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2 month ago
nelson : Summize on the deal - Notes from the Summize guys on being acquired by Twitter
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2 month ago
nelson : Twitter + Summize - Congratulations guys, this is great for Twitter
Andy Baio : Twitter officially acquires Summize - search.twitter.com is now live
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2 month ago
Linkorama : The Adaptive Path Approach to Executive Recruitment? - Peter Merholz on how Adaptive Path found their CEO openly, posted for Harvard Business School press
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Why Tiny FriendFeed Will Be as Big as Google - Steve Rubel: I believe that FriendFeed will be the first to implement an elegant advertising system that complements aggregated content from friends. I'd say that makes sense for the subsets of the public opt-in who are connected to the same.
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deusx : Browser Wars: Why does Firefox use Google for search? Follow the money - "Let's not pretend that calling for open search is anything but a tactic for generating false controversy."
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3 month ago
Simon Willison : Geohash for spatial index and search - Geohash for spatial index and search. Nice, clear explanation of what a Geohash is. It’s a way of encoding a lat/lon position as a short string, with the useful property that similar co-ordinates with more or less significant figures share a common pr
bmilleare : Geohash for spatial index and search - Interesting introduction to geohashing. I like the search speed boost this could provide - need to research it more.
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dbow : Create good queries in Spotlight - Incredibly helpful set of tips on composing queries in Spotlight (via Daring Fireball)
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3 month ago
veen : What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0 - "Instead of putting all the web-native content and publishing in the blog ghetto, like NYTimes.com does, why not make that the WHOLE site?"
Andy Baio : What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About the Web - great post about the Washington Post being held back by their print editions and mindset [via]
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia 3.0: You can now edit any page on Mahalo - Interesting experiment, seems like imbalanced incentives at first brush. Mahalo's costs will soar to fend off vandalism and maintain coordinated -- and contributors could mostly be from the SEO community.
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : MuxFind, search for songs on Muxtape - this can't last long [via]
philgyford : MuxFind: Search for Muxtapes - Finds muxtapes (online playlists) similar to artists or other muxtapes you like. (via Haddock)
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Is Microsoft Cashback the Future of Search? - Lastly, if Microsoft really wanted to disrupt the market, it should look at turning Live search, including Farecast, into an open development platform (I see this coming from Yahoo already) - in short, disrupting the third axis of search - how search is c
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4 month ago
43folders : Macworld | Create good queries in Spotlight
dbow : Create good queries in Spotlight - Incredibly helpful set of tips on composing queries in Spotlight (via Daring Fireball)
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Does Social Networking Kill Search? - The Curations model: experts recommend. The Search model: the crowd recommends. The Social Network model: friends recommend.
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deusx : IT Discovery — Intelligent, Strategic Email Discovery - "By a happy coincidence, the two primary difficulties inherent in searching emails — its sheer volume and its "noisy" nature — are susceptible of recent developments in machine learning technologies that make this task manageable. This
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5 month ago
nelson : Google language models - An example of how they use user session data to make better search results
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Search terms replacing URLs in Japanese advertising - I'd love to hear more about Japanese search spam
Richard Rutter : Japan: URL\’s Are Totally Out - Cabel notes that search terms are in, instead.
gleuschk : cabel.name: Japan: URL's Are Totally Out - I noticed the same thing. Also, there are 30-sec English lessons on screens in the subway cars!
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6 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : compfight - A Flickr search tool. Hot. ∞
Rod Begbie : compfight - Really nice Flickr search tool. Gives you a great at-a-glance thumbnail view. [via] #
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6 month ago
deusx : Design details of Audiogalaxy.com’s high performance MySQL search engine | Spiteful.com - "At peak times, the search engine needed to handle 1500-2000 searches every second against a MySQL database with about 200 million rows."
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nelson : Hadoop success - Yahoo talks about how they do web indexing. Google considers their equivalent system highly proprietary; neat that Hadoop is open source.
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