Guest Author Sramana Mitra

Let Yahoo deal with its mess, Microsoft should go cold turkey on them for a year now, and let Jerry Yang get fired for failing to create shareholder value. A far more interesting question looms on the Microsoft side. What is Microsoft’s Internet strategy going forward?
Here’s my shopping list for Microsoft, […]

Pete Warden writes:
I’ve been a fan of CoolIris’s work since they started over two years ago. I ran across them because their first product was the eponymous browser extension that let you view live, in-context previews of web pages by hovering over the links on certain pages. This was in the same area as my […]

Guest Author Paul Heymann
Search is probably the most important application on the web. Arguably, both Google and Yahoo! are currently sustained by selling sponsored search ads next to search results.
The history of web search has been a series of big jumps in search quality followed by relative lulls. For example, the introduction of link structure […]

An interview by Susanne Koch of Pandia:
Recently, Pandia reviewed Kosmix, a web portal and clustering engine rolled into one. We liked what we saw, so we talked to Venky Harinarayan, co-founder of Kosmix to find out more about how they see themselves in the search engine space.

Pandia: Kosmix generates “home pages” for themes or queries. […]

Guest Author: Jérôme Charron

Il n’y a pas que Google pour rechercher et trouver sur le Web, et pourtant nous sommes nombreux à n’utiliser que le moteur de recherche américain, et même à en faire la page d’accueil de notre navigateur. Il y a aussi les grands du Web, Yahoo, Live Search… et tous les […]