Daily Archives: January 6, 2008

I know! Let’s build a social search Google killer

January 6, 2008 – 5:03 pm

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 [...]

By nilhan | Posted in Google, Internet, Media, SEO, Social Media, Social search | Comments (0)

Google patent for extracting text in images

January 6, 2008 – 4:11 pm

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 [...]

By nilhan | Posted in Google, research | Comments (0)

Freshness beats reputationfor hot topics?

January 6, 2008 – 3:50 pm

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 [...]

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