Technorati is sponsoring dinner and drinks — free as in beer — tonight, August 20, at Gordon Biersch in Palo Alto from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. The event coincides with the nearby BarCamp event nearby. If you are in the Palo Alto area I hope you can join us tomorrow night for some garlic fries, beer, and many interesting people in downtown Palo Alto. Tags: barcamp, paloalto…
Category Archives: Search
Kent Brockman on blog rumors
B.L. Ochman was given a tip from a venture capitalist that Technorati is about to be sold “to a large search company.” I immediately thought of The Simpsons’ Kent Brockman from the Deep Space Homer episode in season 5. You can watch the 4.7 MB video clip of the ant overlords and have a good Friday. As for the rumor? No comment but I hope any company interested in search and using Technorati’s services will check out the Technorati developer APIs to get a better idea of how they might be able to work with Technorati and its underlying data….
Google site search highlights
I was searching Google this morning and I noticed some new links under the top search result. I was searching for FTP software Transmit and I noticed four screenshots immediately below the search result for transmit. How interesting! People searching for Transmit can immediately view screenshots of the application. A search for Technorati reveals a few chosen links within Technorati’s many web pages as well. So what’s going on? My guess is Google is experimenting with ways of surfacing multiple results within the same domain. We currently see this exposure of up to four links for the top search result…
Eurekster launches SearchPublisher platform
Eurekster, a social and personalized search company located in San Francisco, just launched their SearchPublisher platform that provides site publishers with web search unique to their site or group of cites and personalized for each user. Site publishers receive a revenue share for any advertisements selected by its users. SearchPublisher provides sample searches based on recent search activity in your defined activity. If you are too small to create an interesting search sample you can join a SearchParty and receive results from other groups such as the Blogs SearchParty. It’s the first interesting search engine I know of with revenue…
Apple Cupertino headquarters not removed from MSN Visual Earth
There has been a rumor floating around this morning that Microsoft intentionally removed Apple’s current headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop from their satellite imagery of Cupertino. It’s not true. The satellite photograph used by MSN Visual Earth is from U.S. Geological Survey and was taken on October 30, 1991. I called Apple’s Public Relations department and confirmed the current headquarters building was not built at this time. U.S. Geological Survey also has a photograph of the area from February 27, 2004 but it looks incomplete. Microsoft Terraserver Imagery MSN Visual Earth USGS National Map Viewer If you look at the…
Microsoft RSS Search coming on Monday?
MSN has been busy this week crawling all the syndication feeds it can find. It looks like Microsoft is getting ready to announce feed search for MSN Search on Monday morning. The move is not too surprising as we have seen MSN dabble in RSS search with the small Start.com research project in public for a few months now. Are you curious what MSN has been up to? Check your server logs for IP addresses 207.68.146.41 and 207.68.146.47 to see the initial probe and 207.68.146.53 for the deeper revisit. 207.68.146.47 – – [21/Jul/2005:00:15:05 +0000] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0” 200 37 “-“…
Yahoo! quarterly numbers
Yahoo! announced quarterly results yesterday and gave us a peek at what’s been happening for the last 3 months. The Yahoo! Music service seemed to cause the most excitement among analysts on the conference call and Yahoo! plans to fully release the service by the end of September. Terry Semel said over half a million publishers are submitting feeds to My Yahoo! and over 4 million sites have “Add to My Yahoo!” buttons on their pages. He also mentioned the relevance of personal content producers using Flickr and blogs during the recent London bombings. Yahoo! had 3.14 billion average…
Intelliseek introduces BlogPulse profiles
BlogPulse profiles are now online as a beta feature. The new tool from Intelliseek displays various information Intelliseek collects about a the top 10,000 blog URLs such as people linking to the blog, sites linked by the blog, most recent blog posts, and common keywords. They also provide a list of 10 blogs that cite similar links and text. My favorite feature is the common keywords identified in recent posts. It would be fun to take a group of keywords and guess the blogger. Tags: blogpulse…
Microsoft RSS search using Start.com
Microsoft announced a new version of Start.com yesterday that includes news and feed search. You can view the new Start.com and search for yourself. Search results are displayed in a JavaScript window and each search category’s results are displayed using asynchronous JavaScript. You can subscribe to the feed of any result in the RSS search results. I still don’t like the branding of feed search as “RSS search” but I do still ask for a Kleenex even if it’s a Puffs and my parents call a vacuum cleaner a Hoover even if it’s a Dyson. Tags: microsoft, feedsearch, rss…
Yahoo! RSS Search
Yahoo!’s new RSS search site was introduced to the public domain this morning. Yahoo! RSS Search is no longer exposed outside the firewall so don’t be surprised if you are redirected to Yahoo! Search when you follow the aforementioned link. This early version of a future Yahoo! search component appeared to restrict searches of Yahoo! Search’s index to only include content published as a feed. I presume Yahoo! will use RSS as a generic term referring to feeds including RDF, RSS, and Atom. A search for “Niall Kennedy” returned 205 results on Yahoo! RSS Search compared to 565 results…