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Banging on Bing: A Bummer
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Banging on Bing: A Bummer

So, Bing is out early. Yes, an early release from Microsoft! And it’s snappy, attractive, and offers decent quality. If I needed to use Bing as my main search engine...

Journalism Is Not Like Craigslist
From The Noisy Channel

Journalism Is Not Like Craigslist

In response to a meeting sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America about “Models to Monetize Content” (i.e., how to charge for online news), Scott Rosenberg...

Page
From The Noisy Channel

Page

I hesitate to cite Valleywag as a news source, but I did read there that Sergey Brin is crediting fellow Google co-founder Larry Page with “Page’s Law“, the assertion...

Waiting for the Big Bing
From The Noisy Channel

Waiting for the Big Bing

Everyone is talking about Bing today–well, everyone who isn’t too busy watching Google do the Wave. If you haven’t been paying attention, Microsoft is about to...

2009 Enterprise Search Sourcebook
From The Noisy Channel

2009 Enterprise Search Sourcebook

I just noticed that the 2009 edition of the Enterprise Search Sourcebook is now available. Published by Information Today, it’s a nice way to survey the landscape...

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
From The Noisy Channel

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations

Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
From The Noisy Channel

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations

Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...

NYT Appoints a
From The Noisy Channel

NYT Appoints a

What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...

NYT Appoints a
From The Noisy Channel

NYT Appoints a

What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...

News, Search Experience, and Value
From The Noisy Channel

News, Search Experience, and Value

I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m...

News, Search Experience, and Value
From The Noisy Channel

News, Search Experience, and Value

I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m...

NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
From The Noisy Channel

NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems

Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized...

NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
From The Noisy Channel

NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems

Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized...

Book. Is. Done.
From The Noisy Channel

Book. Is. Done.

I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and...

Book. Is. Done.
From The Noisy Channel

Book. Is. Done.

I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and...

Data.gov
From The Noisy Channel

Data.gov

When I first heard that Vivek Kundra was on the short list to be the CTO of the United States, I was very excited about the possibility that he would implement...

Data.gov
From The Noisy Channel

Data.gov

When I first heard that Vivek Kundra was on the short list to be the CTO of the United States, I was very excited about the possibility that he would implement...

Is Google Conjuring a
From The Noisy Channel

Is Google Conjuring a

Alex Chitu at the unofficial Google Operating System blog reports that: Gmail’s code reveals an upcoming feature called “magic inbox” or “icebox inbox”, which is...

Is Google Conjuring a
From The Noisy Channel

Is Google Conjuring a

Alex Chitu at the unofficial Google Operating System blog reports that: Gmail’s code reveals an upcoming feature called “magic inbox” or “icebox inbox”, which is...

Google Suggests
From The Noisy Channel

Google Suggests

I haven’t seen this in my own browser yet, but MG Siegler at TechCrunch reports that Google Suggest has added advertising (see Google’s official post here). It...
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