Market Analysis
Wikiasari - Social Search Engine
According to a report on Information Week, Wikipedia founders plan to build a commercial search engine (Wikiasari) combining algorithmic technology with human power. Combining the Open source search engine Nutch with human input they plan improve relevancy and compete against Google and Yahoo!. The detail of how this would work is still unclear
Wales doesn’t know […]
Yahoo! leaked memo calls for major shakeup.
A Yahoo! Internal memo calls for drastic action to keep it from declining further in its efforts to catch Google. Senior Vice President Brad Garlinghouse, asks for a major restructuring of the company with a possible 20% cut in jobs.
Garlinghouse went on to say, the company didn’t have a clear strategy and was rife with […]
Google Jotspot as a Business Wiki
Dave Girouard, Vice President and General Manager, Google Enterprise hopes that Businesses will adopt the Jotspot Wiki as a collaborative tool. For many small to medium size enterprise without the resources to setup their own web based Wiki, this is a great way to share knowledge and best practice. Unfortunately it wasn’t possible to use […]
MediaWhiz acquires Text Link Ads
New York based ad firm Media Whiz has bought Text Link Ads. These guys are in the business of brokering links, which can help sites to rank in search engines. I’ve seen Patrick Gavin many times at various search marketing events, but have managed to stay away from buying their services. I’m very surprised about […]
Blinkx to power MSN video search
Microsoft signs deal with Blinkx who will provide search functionality for MSN video. According to Suranga Chandratillake Blinkx co-founder and CTO, this could mean millions of dollars in additional revenue.
Blinx goes way beyond searching through text titles, descriptnios and user defined tags, into decoding words from speech and even attempting to recognise images. In […]
