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Om Malik is an excellent tech reporter who used some clever HR forensics to sniff out that Hulu might be opening its content internationally (a quite exciting scoop, especially for those who prefer not to spoof). He saw that they were hiring internationally, looked at the job specs, and concluded that this indicated that Hulu [...]

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Anita Elberse of Harvard Business School has completed a new look at consumer data to write a piece entitled Should You Invest in the Long Tail?  Her article seems to be written as a corrective to some of the hoopla around Chris Anderson’s book, The Long Tail.  Her article is worth reading but mainly for [...]

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It’s being floated that Microsoft is set to acquire Powerset for £50 million. By adding to their capabilities in turning unstructured data into structured data using better semantic search capabilities, it is hoped that they can improve their search engine results and maybe ad serving tech.  More thoughts on Semantic Search here.
Update:  Ink not on [...]

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When Microsoft was being hounded by the DOJ on antitrust issues, Bill Gates continued to put forward, with some audacity, his company’s mission “to get a workstation running our software onto every desk and eventually in every home.”   This signaled to software buyers that MSFT was intent on maintaining their OS as the standard [...]

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Danny Sullivan of the search engine land site does a nice job of parsing May search data here.  His analysis nets out that in several cuts of the data, Google is continuing to dominate the search business.  There is much speculation about whether threats to Google’s dominant market position will bubble up or be met [...]

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Not quite sure how I feel about the big Yahoo! announcement. To my mind, the deal raises uncomfortable ontological issues about just who Yahoo! is. If they’re just another publisher, then I guess it might make sense to outsource ad serving to maximize CPMs but as a tech platform, it seems to [...]

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Yahoo! just announced, as part of their SearchMonkey initiative, the launch of Search Gallery on Wednesday and TechCrunch has a piece on the new and improved (“doesn’t suck”) release of Wikia Search. Both efforts, although they use very different methods, put tools in the hands of the community to offer a better search experience.

It’s [...]

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Tim O’Reilly has an interesting blog post in response to Michael Arrington’s post on search.  He suggests that the approach of making modest improvements upon Google SERPs is akin to windmill tilting since the emerging platforms being build on the web will negate the old models of navigation.  We’re inclined to agree that it’s imperative [...]

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