Archives for the "Search" tag
Getting to Know You
Google’s introduction of new extensions for Firefox is all about knowing more about some users. This week, Google introduced two new Firefox extensions: Google Safe Browsing and Blogger Web Comments which are providing richer integration with the desktop and a number of new features based on your surfing patterns. But the question, when looking at those is [...]
Tags: Advertising, Google, Java, Search
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Copy and Print
As a member of both the New York Library and Creative Commons, I received a lot of advance notice about this week’s discussion entitled “The Battle Over Books: Authors and Publishers Take on the Google Print Library Project”. And, thanks to Larry Lessig, I got a chance to be in the audience during this match-up [...]
Tags: Google, Microsoft, Search, United States, Yahoo
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Reading the Google Tea Leaves
Every time Google comes out with a new product, many people talk about how great it is and highlight the product as a category killer. However, it increasingly appears to me that Google is filling up holes in their offering, in an attempt to match its competitors. Based on that assumption, I started wondering if [...]
Tags: AOL, Google, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo
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Metrics – Weighting the Metrics
Metrics weeks continues with a review of how to weight metrics. So far, I’ve looked into who, in a company could benefit from metrics. I then delved into two different types of metrics: hard metrics, which can easily be measured, and soft metrics, which cannot. Today, I’m going to try to figure out how this [...]
Tags: API, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Search, eBay
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Google has 24 billion items index, considers MSN search nearest competitor
From John Battelle’s site comes the news that Google has decided to drop the number of documents it listed on its front page. The company now claims its index is three times larger than its nearest competitor. Let’s look at the number. Google vs. Yahoo A few weeks ago, Yahoo! claimed that its index was over 20 [...]
Tags: Google, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo
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Money in the archives
Following a recent article in Wired News about the viability of blogging as a revenue generating model, I started thinking about the value of archival material to a blogger. As readers of this site might have noticed when using the web interface, I am using the Google Ad service called AdSense. As I am not at [...]
Tags: Search
