Amazon Dives Into Books
Amazon: Search Inside the Book "Search Inside the Book allows you to search millions of pages to find exactly the book you want to buy. Now instead of just displaying… Read more »
Category: search engines
Google, Microsoft Search the Local Web
Microsoft Research: "The WWMX, short for the World-Wide Media eXchange, is an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research. Our goal is to explore… Read more »
Amazon & Google Visual Search
Not terribly useful, but fun: Anacubis (radial links), Honeycomb (like SmartMoney’s square market map).
On Search: Metadata
Tim Bray: "Historically, the difficulty of collecting metadata at source has been generally large enough to outweigh the (potentially huge) benefits from collecting it. But I for one am not… Read more »
Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books
NYT: "Executives at Amazon.com are negotiating with several of the largest book publishers about an ambitious and expensive plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens… Read more »
Google Content-Targeted Ads Don’t work For Me
On a small campaign I ran these last weeks: Search Ads: 4553 impressions, 141 clicks (3% CTR) Content-Targeted Ads: 25916 impressions, 22 clicks (0.1% CTR) I’m interested in hearing from… Read more »
Google users don’t care about me
Eric Snowdeal: "[B]logs are clogging the results of searches in a way that web-based archives of usenet postings never did. when i search for "galaxie 500 window crank" i don’t… Read more »
Search engines make us dumb
Gary Price links to an article with a quite strong headline that shares some of the concerns I have about popular perception towards search engines such as Google, and he… Read more »
Google is Going to Email Targeted Webmasters to Improve Its Index
From this job description for a temporary Business Development Researcher: "Research targeted 1,000+ website list. Research contact info of websites and send standardized email to targeted webmasters. Set up and… Read more »
ODP/Google Has Been Updated Last Week
ODP Blog: "Google, who is arguably our most widely-known data user, has updated its Web Directory. This means that all new sites added since the last update in September will… Read more »