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Search Engines Afraid of Committment
I recently read a story on relationships that came to mind today as a possible way to understand why search engines are…
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Google Library Project Befriends Belgium
Ghent University is located in Ghent, which is a city in Flanders, which is a region in Belgium. You probably recognized at least one or two of those names, but you’re sure to know this next one: Google. And Google has just partnered with Ghent University.
MySpace Dominates Top Search Terms
You know, maybe Google's too ambitious with this index-the-world's-information thing. Judging from the most popular searches, they really only need to focus on boobs, pop culture and cute stuff.
Trulia Takes In $10 Million In Funding
Some weeks are “product” weeks - the companies all have something they want to release. This has been a “money” week - crazy amounts have been thrown around. And - although the amount of craziness and throwing involved here is debatable - real estate search engine Trulia has just joined the crowd by raising $10 million in funding.
How Important is the Homepage?
Seth Godin, on his blog, wrote "Do you really need a home page? Does the web respect it?". Here is what he wrote: Human beings don't have home pages. People make judgments about you in a thousand different ways. By what they hear from others, by the way they experience you, and on and on. Companies may have a website, but they don't have a…
Freebase: The Stem Of A Global Brain?
People have some good things to say about Freebase, the collaborative wiki-style open database still in alpha testing. None have better things to say than its proprietor, who says his goal is to be a database of the world's knowledge.
