AllTop Brings the Internet Full Circle!

Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in web technology |

"One faces the future with one's past." - Pearl S. Buck It is so true that history repeats itself. I've blogged recently about the evolution of the Internet and the advent of search as a lens from which to explore what ...

Thoughts on Search, Human Involvement, and Stumpedia

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in web technology |

I have had many conversations lately about search including a few blog posts (here and here). To summarize the conversations, I have generally expressed a somewhat strong distaste for the current state of search. I loathe that search is ...

PowerSet & Broken Search

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in web technology |

In response to my post yesterday on search, someone sent me a link to PowerSet. They raised $12.5 million in venture in November 2006 in order to "fix" search through natural language processing. Something Google is no doubt working ...

The Search Problem

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in web technology |

Yesterday Brad Feld of the Foundry Group posted an article by Loic Le Meur discussing the trouble with the disjointed nature of the thousands of social services that are now in use globally. I see compelling parallels between the new social ...