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What Semantic Search is Not
You may have heard the term "semantic search," but do you really know what it is? Some people have very big ideas…
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Google Finance Wants Your Opinion
The Google Finance group plans to take an active role in answering questions on its blog, but only for a couple of days.
Profits Fall At Yahoo, But Don’t Blame Search
Jerry Yang's return as Yahoo CEO experienced a less than auspicious start to his first time back at the helm for an earnings announcement, as the numbers showed a dip in display ad performance.
Healthline Receives $21 Million Injection
In a manner of speaking, Healthline is looking especially robust today - it just received $21 million in financing. And if, like me, you often aren’t acquainted with the names of financial backers, you should still recognize the entity that was behind this gift: GE/NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Fund.
Facebook Eating MySpaces Cafeteria Lunch
My fellow FutureLab blogger, danah boyd, wrote an interesting and controversial essay about the social network migration of high school students: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace. (Boyd blogs at Many-to-Many and Apophenia about social networking and related topics.) She sums up her point:
Does Microsoft Deserve Facebook?
First of all, think I’m the only one going gung-ho about Facebook? You’re nuts. ReadWriteWeb is doing a week of nothing but Facebook.
