Quality Matters

Danny's fed up with the search engine index size wars, and proposes that the biggies duke it out on a more important front: relevancy (or relevance as we like to call it over here). He proposes that they all agree on some sort of standard test and to have an independent institute or consortium run the tests.

Spam Dealer Gets Year In the Can

Former America Online employee Jason Smathers learned the hard way that crimes in cyberspace are real crimes as a US District Court judge sentenced him to a year and three months in prison. Smathers, a software engineer, admitted to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and then selling them to spammers.

Searching For the Size of the Matter

Yahoo made a statement recently about having the biggest base of items to draw upon in the search world. This claim had been held by Google for quite a while and now Yahoo claims otherwise. Many of the voices in the search world say that size doesn't matter, it's all about relevance.

Yahoo Open or Yahoo Closed?

Well, it seems that I get to quote Greg Linden a second time today. He points to the Yahoo's Personality Crisis article that's been stirring up a bit of discussion about whether Yahoo! will be opened or closed.