Archive for the ‘Search’ Category
- TinEye: We do for images what Google does for text
I am sure you have heard about our latest image search service: TinEye. Here is our first video intro:
- Encyclopedia Britannica
Via TechCrunch: Encyclopedia Britannica opens its content to bloggers via their webshare program. A great way to get their content indexed by Google!
- Everywhere Girl
Joey Coleman from MacLeans.ca on the Everywhere Girl. I wish I had seen his blog post about the University of Manitoba using her photograph in their marketing campaign in 2005. Missed it in my initial write up. I am still tracking her. Her last big appearances at Idée where in a series of book covers. I am now seeing if she has ever been used on CD cover; our image recognition technology is working away and soon I will have some results to share with you all.
- It is all about access to data – large amount of data
Via O’Reilly
Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search Products and User Experience,
"confessed that having access to large amounts of data is in many
instances more important than creating great algorithms."
- The visual search King
Paul’s glamour shot is gracing the pages of StartupNorth. The man loves his hardware! No really. He does. I will have to write up a little blog post about the Idée cluster. But in the meantime, drop by and read Jevon’s MacDonald piece. Vive Idée! and thank you Jevon – yes, we are up to some great things… that we will share soon soon.
- The Google $100 Billion roadmap
Google is projected by Wall Street to have annual revenue of $15.7 billion in 2008 and $19 billion in 2009. But the ambitions are higher–more like $100 billion in annual revenue. The big question: How will Google get there?
Larry Dignan tells us.
- New Live Search
MaryJo on Microsoft’s new Live Search: 5 take aways:
- Microsoft’s search index is a lot bigger now
- Live Search’s relevancy is noticeably improved.
- Microsoft is focusing on improving search in four verticals with this release. These are: shopping, entertainment, health and local/maps.
- Microsoft is sticking to its plans to do a major spring and a fall release every year of Live Search
- Microsoft is still kicking around the idea of possibly rebranding Live Search
For a snapshot of the search industry, the latest comscore results are here
- Credit!
User Generated Credit that is
Via StockPhotoTalk: UgcDb.com seeks to be the source for behind the scenes credits for user generated content. The site brings together aspiring actors, directors, and content creators to help legitimatize and publicize their contributions and provide a mechanism for others to get started in the UGC space.Over at the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (C3) Ana Domb covers the new launch.
I love the idea of user generated content credits. This should apply to all generated content
- New York Times
Via Kottle: Gems from the archive of the New York Times.
- Google addressing the “facebook issue”
Plan or rumor?
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