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Powerset Embraces Ask Jeeves Model
At Powerset, they call it 'natural language search'. We call it a $12 million homage to the days of the butler at…
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Grad Student Gets Grant to Study Click Fraud
University of Louisville graduate student, Li Ge, has been awarded a $149,923 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to engage in research regarding data mining and click-fraud detection.
Canary in Coal Mine VS. Boy Who Cried Wolf
Back in September I posted that I thought it was somewhat sketchy for Google to recommend there photo search when a person searched for Istockphoto and got flamed for it.
A New Year’s Wish List
There were a lot of significant advances in 2006 in the digital realm. Google prospered, YouTube exploded onto the scene, and the Internet overtook newspapers in the hierarchy of information consumption. What does this year hold in store for the technological landscape?
Saddam Searches Flood Search Engines
As news of Saddam Hussein's execution made its way around the web (rather quickly), people flocked to the search engines looking for video, images, and any other pertinent information about the hanging.
Options, Bugs, Phones – Time For Macworld
The Macworld Conference & Expo starts next week in San Francisco, but the parade of Mac fandom led off by Steve Jobs' keynote will have negative news about stock option shenanigans, earnings restatements, and a daily diet of Apple bugs offsetting the positive Mac vibe.
