Yahoo has released Site Explorer, an online tool that lets you see all the pages that Yahoo has indexed on a particular site and all of its inbound links. This is the first time any search engine has offered this…
Month: September 2005
Push for the “Perfect Search”
There's been quite a push lately for what I'm calling the "perfect search" - a search engine that is personalized, local, implicit, predictive, etc. This is something I will be writing more about soon, especially whether there will be room…
Microsoft Plans to Sell Search Ads – Privacy Concerns?
Microsoft has announced that it plans to enter the search advertising market, creating their own advertising system to rival Google and Yahoo. Microsoft's "improvement" is to by allow advertisers to aim ads on its search pages to users based on…
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Google describes Googlebombing
Google's company blog has a post explaining Googlebombing: If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some…
Bill Gates on Google & “Organizing the World’s Information”
Bill Gates gave an interview to CNET about a variety of topics including web search and Google. An interesting passage is Gates' perspective on Google's mission to "organize the world's information" and whether that should be the goal vs. his…
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Tracking Every Move You Make: Can Car Rental Companies Use Technology to Monitor Our Driving?
Anita Ramasastry's recent columns at FindLaw, Tracking Every Move You Make Can Car Rental Companies Use Technology to Monitor Our Driving? discusses the use of GPS as a monitoring technology, particularly in rental cars. From the article:GPS-Plus-Wireless Transmitters: Why the…
The Truth About Google’s so-called “simplicity”
Don Norman has a great post criticizing the oft-lauded "simplicity" of Google's interface. It's worth quoting in its entirety:The Truth About Google's so-called 'simplicity'The truth? It isn't simple.Look, I like Google. It's a great search engine. But I am sick…
More Google Hacking
"Google hacking", using the power & reach of Google's web index to access sensitive information and hack into networks, is becoming more pervasive, organized and powerful. This article features Johnny Long, whose web site seems to be the starting point…
Dan Gillmor: eBay Buying Skype: The Privacy Question Grows
Dan Gillmor brings up an interesting privacy concern with the announced purchase of Skype by eBay:It's official, and eBay will now be adding something to its portfolio: customers' presence online. The possibilities are endless. I didn't get this at first,…
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