Category Archives: Search

Search is good. Search is bad. Search needs help. Thank Google and Yahoo! for bringing us to where we are today. Now, to figure out the other 95% of search…

VRM: Make a gesture, create a market.

What do you get when you turn proprietary data silos inside out? Users in control. Doc Searls has been advocating VRM for a while (here too). What’s nice about his thinking — in addition to the open source/open standards approach … Continue reading

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GoogleAdvice from Seth Godin

In a conversation about the potential market lock-in of Google at Abe Burmeister‘s blog, Dave Chiu introduced me to a great presentation Seth Godin made to Google early in 2006, explaining that it was marketing, and not technology, that made … Continue reading

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In Complex Search we trust

Last week, Seth Godin wrote about the critical role trust plays in our market relationships. And the upside? The upside is that individuals (and organizations) that don’t stoop, that manage to figure out how to have influence without trying to … Continue reading

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Everybody’s pimpin’ your search

While I’ve been off traveling, Google and Yahoo have been launching new or revving existing products that verge somewhere between Search VRM and Complex Search. Matt Cutts (at his own blog) and Greg Sterling and Chris Sherman at Search Engine … Continue reading

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IE7’s Search VRM

Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Watch has a great write-up about IE7’s use of search. I particularly like this feature: [The] Search Provider page also has an interesting box allowing you to visit any search engine, then do a … Continue reading

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How much search training do we really need?

Chris Sherman at Seach Engine Watch writes about a new book out by Greg R. Notess called Teaching Web Search Skills. Wow. Is search so bad that we need to teach how to do it? Even more scary, is it … Continue reading

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Online retail standards may help search across vendors

Evan Schuman writes about a new standard from the Association for Retail Technical Standards (ARTS) that will help online retailers interoperate on the semantic web, making it much easier for Search engines to return results that include accurate and timely … Continue reading

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Amazon unable to disambiguate authors

Apparently, my problem with William Gibson and Prof. William Gibson at Amazon isn’t so much that they have the wrong William Gibson, but rather that Amazon has no mechanism for disambiguating authors. When you click on an author’s link to … Continue reading

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A different take on Attention

I’ve panned the AttentionTrust quite a bit in my first few posts, but I must say it is really because they are so close to spot on. Powerfully close. Now if we can just jump from there to something we … Continue reading

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Amazon over-automating

Amazon surprised me with a recommendation today: The Original And Institution of Civil Government, Discuss’d (Ams Studies in the Eighteenth Century) (Hardcover) by Benjamin Hoadly (Author), William Gibson (Author) This is probably because I’m a William Gibson fan. However, I’m … Continue reading

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