PageRank is Dead (The Rush to SocialRank)
Its so fun to write oversimplified posts about such-and-such is dead. Not because its true. At best you can point out something is broken and alternatives are rising fast. But I wonder how the people behind the aging technology and…
Facebook’s Growing Web Platform
If you want to find something, anything on the web, you "google" it…I mean how ubiquitous has a company become when it’s name becomes the verb for a common activity? Now I realize there are other search options, but according…
Gamification, dashboards, search and enterprise failure
Ooh, I love a good disagreemnt, and when my friend JP Rangaswami who’s views I respect highly, writes a post that I heartily disagrees with I’m tickled pink! It was his views on Gamification and Dashboards in the enterprise that made me hit the keyboard, because: I see gamification, dashboards and search as signs of [...]
+1 on +1
Okay so it’s not as mass market as the Like button is, but Google’s attempt to embrace social interactions is a better start than people are giving them credit for. I agree with Louis, this is a hint at a future rather than a capability they are ready to lead with today. Google can use [...]
Silly Rabbits: Google is for Spam not for Search
I’m watching with some interest the growing meme about Google passing on too much spam in the search results. Mathew Ingram does a good overview while claiming Google is on a collision course with Demand Media. He mentions: – Paul Kedrosky’s rant – Vivek Wadhwa, who says we desperately need a new and better Google - [...]
GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth… in Search of Revenue.
I’ve been long-time Gmail fan, having used it from the very early days, for almost 5 years now. The key reasons why I switched and have stuck with the service ever since were the productivity boosters, first of all: Threaded conversations Labels Search Google did to email what all new product teams should: throw away [...]
How to search the IT Project Failures blog
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Google Instant : Awesome Engineering To Result In Enhanced Revenue
A few hours back today, Google launched an ambitious effort to make search faster for all . In the process they have laid the foundation for a new version of SEO to take roots. Lets look at the details here. To quote Google:”Google Instant is a ne…
Google Instant Search = Instant Echo Chamber
The Internet is a Mighty Echo Chamber, and with one fell swoop, Google Instant Search has added a big ole’ Marshall Stack to turn the Echo levels all the way up to 11. Google reports that Instant Search will save 350 million hours of user time per year. What isn’t reported is how it will cut [...]
Search, Follow, or Get it Out of My Way!
With apologies to Thomas Paine’s, “Lead, follow, or get out of the way,” my headline for this post is a recitation of how most people filter the information and communication that comes to them online. From a marketer’s perspective, as well as an information consumer’s, this is darned limiting in the oddest kinds of ways. We [...]
