Archive for January, 2008
Cop in trouble for hanging out in a porn neighbourhood
A School Cop is being investigated for linking to a friend’s MySpace page containing a link to a porn site. Why? Because you could get to this porn site in just a few clicks from his profile page. Hmmm, you could get to the same page with just one click from Google.
I’m not expecting […]
The day Spannerworks became iCrossing
That’s right, today the place I’ve worked for over the last six years rebranded as iCrossing UK. This was no big surprise and I was a big fan of the partnership, still, it was kind of weird hearing people answer the phone as iCrossing.
It’s been an exciting year and being part of the iCrossing […]
Life as media
Great coverage of the DDL conference in Germany by Jeff Jarviz. The session with Richard Dawkin really caught my attention. Being an avid follower of the religion of life – you know, the one that believes in this one. I’ve always loved Dawkins and a particular fanatic of the idea of humans as meme machines. […]
I’m loving lijit – lovin it!
Last week a friend asked me about lijit – a kind of social search engine based on Google custom. So, I started reading about it and the next thing I know I’d installed it on my sidebar. Wow! It was like a spiritual experience in user experience. I was reading one minute bought into the […]
Google suggest for news gone
Looks like Google has removed Google news suggest. Google news suggest could be activated by adding &complete=1 to the end of the news sarch URL. Having done this, you could get a list of popular queries based on what you type into the search box, similar to to Google suggest.
This was a handy little tool, […]
MediaCart and Microsoft to offer targeted advertising on shopping trolleys.
Next generation shopping trolley to trial. I don’t know why this is making me feel uneasy. I mean all the technology has been available for many years and it all seems obvious – meant to happen - what took them so long?
An online shopping list accessible from the trolley. Nutritional information and possibly the […]
First look at Wikia
OK it’s been a couple of days since the launch of the social search engine and my earlier disappointment has been replaced by a sense of – well – apathy. I’m no longer angry at the crappy results or the fact that their crawler had managed to completely miss by site.
For any commercial searches (You […]
I know! Let’s build a social search Google killer
2007 has witnessed the most significant advances in online communication and connectedness. This was the year when marketers started to embrace and felt a little threatened by social networks. IT wasn’t really about technology – but the coming to fruition of many of the ideas and desires to connect.
But during this year, one thing […]
Google patent for extracting text in images
I love reading about new patent applications but rarely comment on the direct impact on search. As everyone knows, there’re lots of reasons to protect intellectual property, and most rarely get used.
But the one just granted to Google for extracting text from images looks like the real deal. The number of uses are almost unlimited […]
Freshness beats reputationfor hot topics?
Wasn’t sure if I wanted to get involved with this argument, but there are a couple of interesting factors worth watching.
Over the holidays, the unofficial Google blog, made a bold statement - Google ‘artificially’ promotes recent blog posts.
Not sure about ‘artificially’ as that would mean there’s a regular algorithm governed by some universal natural […]
