Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Google considers categories

April 17th, 2007 — Mark

According to a screen-shot on Philipp Lenssen’s outer-court.com blog Google have been considering delivering search returns broken down into functional categories, like “Review” and “Reference” and “Stores”. It brings the prospect of functional search that much closer.

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Can you blog your way out of a crisis?

October 30th, 2006 — Mark

I am addressing a CBI conference this week in Birmingham, UK, where the agenda is to discuss Crisis Management and digital media.
When we established Market Sentinel two years ago we thought that online monitoring and response would be a leading part of crisis management. As time has gone on and we have learnt [...]

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Search associated sites

October 23rd, 2006 — Mark

Microsoft’s Live Search team have come up with a really cool piece of code (a search macro, in their terminology) which allows you to search a sub-group of sites all of whom are linked from a particular site. (A similar piece of code already allows you to track sites that link to a [...]

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Google plans a content economy in video

October 11th, 2006 — Mark

By buying YouTube Google have created the groundwork for a content economy in video. They have an integrated micro-payments system, developed for adwords, which is perfectly adapted to incentivizing content providers large and small in posting their material on the website.
Content owners have had three concerns about the web:
a) how do I preserve my [...]

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Search for code online

October 5th, 2006 — Mark

Google launched a code search engine so that developers can find public code more easily. Now you can find out if anyone before you has ever solved that problem you are working on.

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