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Google is a Kludge – Or Why Search is Going to Change

June 20, 2008

Despite the fact that I often find myself on the opposing end of the table on most of what Microsoft does, I was really hoping to be able to agree with Ballmer on his assertions regarding Microsoft’s rejuvenated focus on search as quoted in today’s Financial Times article. I was hoping that, on the heels [...]

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Search Goes Open-Source

May 1, 2007

If you happen to be, like me, in the throes of hoisting a company that incorporates some flavor of Search technology as a key capability, you know that its value in managing and sorting the torrent of internet information pouring out of blogs and everything else these days is essential to the success of the [...]

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AOL Gets Its Dead Reckoning…

July 24, 2003

AOL didn’t lose 846,000 subscribers. It never had them in the first place.
-Ian.
—– http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid04&ncids8&e=6&u=/ washpost/20030724/tc_washpost/a32817_2003jul23 AOL Subscribers Down by 846,000 Thu Jul 24,12:23 AM ET
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By David A. Vise, Washington Post Staff Writer
America Online’s subscriber base plunged by 846,000 in the second quarter, as [...]

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Google vs. Evil…

December 18, 2002

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html Issue 11.01 – January 2003
Google vs. Evil
The world’s biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don’t be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business.
By Josh McHugh
Life used to be so much easier [...]

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Google Is Cool…

April 1, 2002

Their April Fool’s Day joke….
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
The technology behind Google’s great results
As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google’s search technology is PigeonRank, a system [...]

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Movies On Demand..

February 7, 2002

Hey! Check out: http://www.movie88.com/movie88/enmovie/index.php
The site is a tad slow, but it truly could be the next Napster model that scares the crap out of the movie industry.
-Ian.
—- $1 films spook Hollywood By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 7, 2002, 4:00 AM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1023-831383.html
A Taiwanese Web site is [...]

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