The Search Engine's Lobbyist
Googles recent hire of Alan Davidson to be its vanguard in is a big moment for the company a sort of recognition that nobodys going to organize the worlds information by technology alone The job is going to take some help from bureaucrats the company has discovered And Googles not alone
It seems that policymaking and regulatory activity in Washington affect Google and our users more every day the company posted to its blog Its important to be involved to participate in the policy process and contribute to the debates that inform it...
Where to search?
Not that the hundreds of based publishers are losing money but most of the growth theyll see in the next decade will come from the Internet
Its already happening
In the telephone directory industry had worldwide revenues of
289 billion Of that about 27 billion or nearly 10 percent was
from online ventures including Internet Yellow Pages partnerships
with Yahoo and other search engines and wireless directory searches
By industry revenues are expected to top 39 billion and a whopping 28 percent or about 10...
Technology News: Networks : Yahoo, BellSouth Sell High-Speed Access
Sunnyvale Califbased Yahoo already has similar alliances with Communications and Verizon Communications the only regional phone providers larger than Atlantabased BellSouth Combined Verizon and BellSouth have about 125 million subscribers in 38 states
Free WiFi Hotspot Locator from TechNewsWorld
Wondering where to find the nearest publicly available WiFi Internet access Our global directory of locations in 26 countries is a terrific tool for mobile computer users...
The End Of the Size Wars? Part 2
Part 1 of this twopart series on the search engine size wars discussed why bigger is not good indicator of better when it comes to the major search engines
Whats a good way to measure comprehensiveness Look at actual search queries that come back with zero or relatively few results This is better than rare word testing because those searches are artificial
Real queries reflect actual needleinthehaystack hunts Look at this type of failure or low count queries at Yahoo and see if Google returns matches Do the same with Google queries on Yahoo...