Tag: search

  • Where's the case for data retention?

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    Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt announced today that he thinks the greatest danger to people’s privacy is not from leaks of people’s data as happened earlier this week to AOL users but rather from government snooping. I have always worried the query stream is a fertile ground for governments to snoop on the people. This is…

  • The myth of privacy

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    You do know that every search term you type into a search engine is saved by the search engine, don’t you? That time you searched for porn, or an ex boy/girlfriend, or information about an illness you thought you might have – all saved by the search engine. This practice was brought sharply into focus…

  • Salim Ismail interview coming up

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    I will be interviewing Salim Ismail, chairman & co-founder of PubSub in the next couple of days. Pubsub is a blog search engine or as Salim likes to say a “matching engine”. I was amazed to learn, from talking to Salim here at the les Blogs 2.0 conference, that Salim lived and worked in Cork…

  • Microsoft follow Google into Book Search

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    I had a much longer post prepared about this but I lost it when I had a server crash (due to my playing around with my .htaccess file!). Anyway, according to the BBC, Microsoft are following Google’s lead into the Book Search arena. MSNBC’s report states that Microsoft are teaming up with Yahoo! and the…

  • Video search via rss

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    Yahoo! have posted a nice instruction set on their blog, detailing how to subscribe your copy of iTunes to video searches of interest so that you are constantly fed relevant updated video casts! Basically, to do it you simply use the RSS url generator to generate the RSS feed for your video search, add that…

  • Sphere – a new blog search engine – reviewed

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    Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has written a review of Sphere – a new blog search engine which, he says quite frankly blows everything, and I mean everything, I’ve seen out of the water in terms of relevance (and, by the way, design…Adaptive Path was involved). Sphere’s search tackles the thorny issue of relevance by having…

  • Developments in search

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    Two search announcements overnight: Chris Pirillo announces a new search engine – Gada.be and Yahoo! builds blog search into its News Search service The Yahoo! blog search engine is disappointing – from a user interface point of view – the blog search results are hidden away in a sidebar of the main results on the…

  • Yahoo! attacks iTunes podcast monopoly

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    Yahoo! have just rolled out Yahoo! Podcasts – a service which lets users find, listen and subscribe to podcasts. PodTech has an interview with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo!’s Chief Product Officer about the new offering where he says: We want this to be as open as possible on both ends. We want to work with every…