More Reasons We Don’t Want Open Search to Beat Google
Following on the heels of my question Do We Really Want Open Search to Beat Google, one has to wonder how much of a problem vandalism and general inaccuracies really are in Wikipedia. One example I...
View ArticleYahoo! Local mapspamming
Wow, the number of ways to manipulate search results just keep growing. A technique coined “mapspamming” has begun to pollute Yahoo! Local’s results, as has “comment bombing”. In a known case, a...
View ArticleCuil – Gateway to Spam
So there’s a new player in the search engine space, founded by some really smart people from Google. Named Cuil, pronounced “cool”, it differs from Goole’s algorithm: As Cuil’s founders describe it,...
View ArticleYahoo’s Opportunities
I’m writing this as both a consumer of online services as well as the hypothetical “what I’d do if I were the CEO” scenario. It’s nothing more than armchair quarterbacking. Also, I started this post...
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