Bloggers Bustin Sony

Google, Authors, Publishers, NYPL, Etc

A live blogger at last night's "intellectual law smackdown" featuring Google, the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers, and Wired Magazine captured the rancorous debate about Google Book Search.

Yahoo And Human Knowledge

Webproworld' publisher, Rich Ord, continued his PubCon crawl by attending the Search Engine Smackdown session. The session included a bit of smack talk but was more informative than anything else. One speaker, Tim Mayer of Yahoo provided a glimpse into the mind of Yahoo search for today and the future.

Digg Could Revolutionize Search Relevance

Users of Digg.com know how effective the process for promoting stories by votes or "diggs" has become; imagine if Digg was the way to get into a new search index with a Google-like algorithm to deliver results from it.