By David Pennock
I am happy to report that on my suggestion intrade has listed futures contracts for 2008 search engine market share.
Here is how they work:
A contract will expire according to the percentage share of internet searches conducted in the United States in 2008. For example, if 53.5% of searches conducted in the United States […]

There is a class of web search engines that can prove even more useful than Google within a certain context. I’m talking, of course, about Vertical Search engines - the writer and tech strategist Sramana Mitra considers them Google’s Achilles heel and Profy.com’s Cyndy Aleo-Carreira seems to agree. This blog also has long held the […]

OrganizedWisdom Health is a human-powered, doctor-guided search service for health. The site provides reviewed search result pages, called WisdomCards.
Wisdom Cards are available for the most popular health search terms and phrases without the clutter, redundant links or index spam typically found in search engines. Each WisdomCard provides useful links and resources for any health […]

Matchpoint, an online service for people to anonymously request and compare offers and proposals from businesses, announced today the beta launch of its service to include over 10 million local businesses across the United States. Consumers now have more options to quickly and privately get competitive offers from local businesses in their neighborhoods as well […]

I (Mary Ellen Bates) was recently doing some research for a client on the topic of social capital (see, for example, Robert Putnam’s book, Bowling Alone). It’s a difficult topic to search and, of course, I retrieved kajillions of results from several search engines. I went through as many of them as I had the […]