Entries Tagged as ‘Search’

December 18, 2005

Google turns evil… for real this time

It’s official. Google had has finally turned evil.
The dot com do-gooder has finally given into the fact that it’s a corporate monolith and as a corporate monolith there are certain things you need to do. Like make defensive plays, even when it compromises pretty much everything that you’ve stood for.
 
Today, Google invested a $1 billion [...]

December 16, 2005

Social Search

This Guardian article about Yahoo’s social search strategy ties in somewhat with what I was just saying in my previous post. Again, it gets back to hybrid human/authomated models…

December 16, 2005

Blogosphere: The biggest, best beige box of all

One of the reasons I started Squash was so I could better understand the blogosphere. You see, I’m a media tragic. I spend every day of my working life analysing, critiquing, exploring media and how it works. So I thought it was kind of hypocritical for me to be opining on blogs and how they’re [...]