Software, Digital Content, Geopolitics, Economics & More from of a Libertarian Serial Expat and Entrepreneur
In: search engines
18 Oct 2001Wired: "Google’s built a no-nonsense path to profitability by treating advertising just like search. The secret? Three words, ranked by relevance: Results. Results. Results."
JY makes a relevant connection between Nielsen’s The End of Homemade Websites and Spolsky’s In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome. It’s true that companies will be able to source web services and use them to build their own sites, but that in itself will require integration work, and you’ll still have to do some custom development [...]
In: search engines
18 Oct 2001Google May Get Personal: "With last month’s acquisition of Outride, Google may be poising itself to go into an area of search refinement that no major player has gone successfully before: personalized search results."
I'm CEO of an online trade publishing firm in the marketing and defense verticals. We try to make news and data digestible and useful in an environment that is more noisy each day. This personal blog mixes my thoughts and interests on politics, business, software, and more, based on my business and personal experiences. Over the years I have posted items that turned out spectacularly wrong, and a few posts that stood the test of times better. Personal views only.