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Message From FASTForward: Search Changes Everything

Let’s be honest for a moment: FAST is not the first company you think about when you think of search. If you’re like me, four days ago, you probably thought the whole competitive landscape for search technology had already been definitively settled. Google won. Game. Set. Match.
But, like me, you’d be wrong. The FASTForward Conference […]

Connectbeam and Enterprise Social Bookmarking

For the past year and a half or so Connectbeam has been wandering in the wilderness telling anyone who will listen that social bookmarking was not simply popular applications like del.icio.us or Furl that allow web addicts to mark and share their favorite links online but an enterprise tool with real potential to help companies […]

IBM, Yahoo OutGoogle Google on Low-End Enterprise Search

Live by free software, die by free software.  That’s the message IBM and Yahoo just delivered to Google with a new free, entry-level, enterprise search application that undercuts one of the few things for which Google actually charges money. The Google Mini, an appliance loaded with Google search software starts at $1,995 for 50,000 documents and […]

GoogleTube - By the Numbers

Why Google Wants YouTube
TRAFFIC DATA
Select Online Video Sites 
August 2006
Source: comScore Media Metrix 
Total Unique Visitors (000)
Select Sites Aug-06
Yahoo! Video                   21,141
MySpace Videos               19,406
YouTube                         19,089
MSN Video                      15,414
Google Video Search        11,891 
STREAMING VIDEO DATA
Select Video Properties
Unique Streamers (000), Streams Initiated (MM), Share of Streams (%)
July 2006
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Select Unique U.S.                             Streams Initiated
Properties Streamers (000)                 by U.S. Users (MM)
Total Internet (U.S.) […]

System One at DEMOFall

Michael Schuster, head of products and services at System One presented the company’s amazing collaboration/search application at DEMOfall earlier this week.  You can watch his demonstration online here.  This is definitely a killer app in the making.

retrievr: Find a Photo by Drawing a Sketch

Those brilliant young men at System One are working on a terrific new application that allows you to find photographs and other images by drawing a rough sketch onscreen of what you’re looking for or uploading a similar image.  Finding images now is  a textual process (by keywords, tags, etc.) but retrievr uses image retrieval algorithms to search […]

Exalead is Google On Steroids

You never forget your first love, they say.  Before Google came along and swept me off my feet with its brassy cornucopia of easy charms, AltaVista was my search engine of choice. It was not perfect but there was something charmingly unpredictable and serendipitous about AltaVista.  It sometimes took you places that were not exactly where […]

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