2 days ago

Alt Search Engines Nstein Technologies Inc. announced the release of a new product, Semantic Site Search (3S). 3S leverages Nstein's text-mining technology to power a faceted site search which returns results that are organized categorically. 3S can ingest content from many different indices from many different web publishing platforms, meani (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Alltoute from Google Reader: Google’s recently released Image Swirl is slick. But I’ve been struggling to figure out whether it’s useful or simply a showcase for cool technology.And that’s prompted me to think about the overloaded term “exploratory search“. A while back, I tried to define exploratory search based on what it is not. This time, let me ai (Read More)

3 days ago

ReadWriteWeb In late August Br.st was nothing more than a URL shortener service with link stats and malware filters. While the company allowed users to cross post to social networks like Twitter, Myspace and Digg, it was simply too late to the space to be considered a contender. As of today the caterpillar has transformed into a butterf (Read More)

3 days ago

ReadWriteWeb Google just announced a new product in Google Labs: Google Image Swirl. Image Swirl introduces a Wonder Wheel-like user interface for Google Images. The new search interface combines the Wonder Wheel experience with Google's ability to find similar images and discover faces in these images. Instead of just showing one image (Read More)

7 days ago

Techmeme Emma Barnett / Telegraph: Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google ‘in months’  —  Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company's content from Google' search index “within months” as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point. (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Alltoute from Google Reader: Social networking sites are quickly becoming one of the most important places where retailers can meet potential customers and interact with their current customer base. According to a new report from eMarketer, social network users are a lucrative target demographic because they are more likely to make online purchases tha (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

Submitted by Alltoute from Google Reader: [Ireland] Social media consultants Simplyzesty started using Twitter Lists to list blogs. However, a brainwave has lead them to take Twitter Lists to their logical conclusion: creating lists of Twitter users in entire countries. They’ve launched a Twitter list for the UK and the list of users in Ireland is currently going c (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

Search Engine Land Billed as the first major redesign in a decade, Microsoft has introduced a dramatic new look and feel for the MSN portal. The redesign simplifies most elements on the site. Among other things, it removes clutter, incorporates Facebook and Twitter, creates a dedicated new local area and emphasizes search.MSN, which Microsoft (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

ReadWriteWeb The next version of popular web dashboard service Netvibes will push "near real-time" updates from feeds to the browser, a dramatic change in how the service works. Those feeds will be served up along with the standard suite of functional widgets the company has always provided. As the number of real-time feeds available (Read More)

Nov 01, 2009

mashable Confused about how to use Google Wave, the new Google product that combines messaging, wiki-like features and group collaboration into a single app? You’re not alone.To clear up the confusion, we recently published Google Wave: A Complete Guide, a feature-length article that explains Wave in plain English.Now Gina Trapani (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Some people believe that Augmented Reality (AR), the class of technologies that place images or data on top of other views of the physical world, could be the web browser of the future. AR has rocketed out of the research labs and is catching mass market interest fast - from mobile phones displaying restaurant reviews wh (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

readwriteweb New data released from Experian Hitwise reconfirms what we've known for some time: Facebook is killing the other social networks. Nowhere is that more true than here in the U.S. where they found that the visits to the site have increased 194% from September of last year to September 2009. However, it's Twitter that's seen t (Read More)

Oct 24, 2009

Scobleizer Facebook yesterday turned on a bunch of new features on its news feed. It looks a lot more like FriendFeed, even though Facebook claims that the FriendFeed team didn’t work on these new features.What does it do? Now Facebook mostly displays items that got engagement. You know, comments. Likes. Tagging. Etc.This makes Facebo (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is "the great challenge of the age," Schmidt said in an interview in front of thousa (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

CMSWire.com - All News Do you constantly watch the Google toolbar in your browser to see if your Google PageRank has changed? Do you worry constantly about why your rank is less than that of a competitor? Well, there may not be any reason to worry any longer.Google has dropped PageRank data from Webmaster Tools. In a thread on Google Webmaster he (Read More)

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