http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/search-engines Blog Articles Tagged with 'search-engines' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/1096913?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines Aside from the kvetching and grumbling yesterday about Mozilla s servers struggling under the strain, one thing that struck me about yesterday s Firefox download frenzy was how Firefox has emerged from an interesting open-source project to 20% of... Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:35 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/1096913?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1092487?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines Dan York filled in for a traveling Alec Saunders.Today s discussion focused on Nick Carr s essay in the Atlantic Monthly called Is Google Making Us Stupid? Are his concerns valid? Or overblown? Find the reactions from callers in the podcast... Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:54:32 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1092487?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/1020478?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines One of the biggest problems with the search market is Google s dominance. Nothing like having a dominant, aggressive player to deter new ideas and innovation from taking root, which explains why new and exciting search engines seem to be few and fa... Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:36:54 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/1020478?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/1011228?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines As the number of blogs has flourished, a curious development has been the lack of sizzle in the blog search market.You would figure that blog search would be a hot market given how many blogs are being created and how finding good blog content is bec... Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:31:12 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/1011228?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/976914?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines As an increasing number of people start to write epitaphs for Yahoo as a standalone company, you re starting to see a lot of nostalgic stories on how David Filo and Jerry Yang started the company in 1994 from the bowels of Stanford University.So wh... Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/976914?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/968676?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines del.icio.us is an extremely useful service but, truth be told, it has been pretty stagnant since being acquired by Yahoo two years ago.Fortunately, there s apparently been a lot of activity behind the scenes, and suggestions (TechCrunch) that the n... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:53:48 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/968676?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/961241?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines A year ago, Wikipedia s Jimmy Wales proclaimed he was going to take on Google by creating a Wiki-powered search engine.Well, Wikia (alpha) has launched, and judging by the reaction by bloggers such as Michael Arrington ( a complete letdown ), ... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:39:41 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/961241?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/957074?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines It looks like IceRocket is taking another shot at establishing a foothold in the blog search market amid a new look and feel, according to Data Mining. IceRocket is best known for once having Mark Cuban as an investor but its turn in the spotlight wa... Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:41:51 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/957074?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/958328?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines It looks like IceRocket is taking another shot at establishing a foothold in the blog search market amid a new look and feel, according to Data Mining. IceRocket is best known for once having Mark Cuban as an investor but its turn in the spotlight wa... Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:41:51 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/958328?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/936299?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines Mitch Joel had a post last week about del.icio.us had become his favorite research search engine.Interesting.As someone who has started to use del.icio.us a lot more often recently, Mitch s post has been rambling around inside my head the past few ... Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:45:40 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/936299?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/new-scientist-technology/911636?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines Computer scientists just can't leave our internet search engines alone. Last week it was better image searching. Now, Jaime Teevan at Microsoft thinks she s found a fix for a very annoying problem.We've all been there. You find some useful search r... Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:42:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/new-scientist-technology/911636?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/906141?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines Bill Gross has always been someone who has fascinated me. As one of the leading entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Gross has pursued his own path - sometimes enjoying spectacular success (CitySearch) and sometimes major disappointment (eToys).While Gro... Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/906141?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/new-scientist-technology/900113?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines Here's an idea that seems a bit obvious, but could potentially be very useful for a lot of web users - a multilingual online search engine.Imagine an Albanian searching for images of frogs on the web. He puts the word bretkos , meaning frog , int... Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:38:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/new-scientist-technology/900113?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/mark-evans/869478?rsstype=tag&tag=search-engines There s been a bunch of stories recently about how entrepreneurs and venture capitalists continue to focus on coming up with a better search engine at a time when Google dominates the landscape.There s lots of talk about vertical search and the s... 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