Search Poll: *Really* Alt Search Engines Charles Knight, Read/WriteWeb's search engine authority, has provided another list of weird search engines. We're interested in getting your opinion on this, as a bit of weekend geeky fun. So which one of these 10 really alt search engines do you think is the silliest/funniest/oddest? Here is the list, with the poll right below.... 1… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup, 19-23 March 2007 Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb, with the results of our poll at the end. Top Web News Much of the discussion in the blogosphere this week revolved around two pieces of big news. Firstly Google announced that it is beta testing a new CPA (Cost Per Action) online advertising service. Our take is here, in which we… Richard MacManus View comments
Contests Winner of ETech Caption Contest We had a great response to the ETech Caption Contest, with the winner receiving a free ticket to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference next week - March 26-29, in San Diego. And the winner is... [drum roll] Kevin Jones, with this caption: "You navigated through Vista's new security and accessed MySpace! Good job!" Congratulations… Richard MacManus View comments
Search Hakia Takes On Google With Semantic Technologies This week I spoke to Hakia founder and CEO Dr. Riza C. Berkan and COO Melek Pulatkonak. Hakia is one of the more promising Alt Search Engines around, with a focus on natural language processing methods to try and deliver 'meaningful' search results. Alex Iskold profiled Hakia for R/WW at the beginning of December and he concluded, after a… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Current Mashup and API Trends Web 2.0 has brought us a flock of APIs and the wonderful new concept of a Web mashup. Thanks to apps like Google Maps, del.icio.us and Flickr, we have started to think a lot about remixing the web. In the figure below is a classic example of a mashup - a Twitter Map. This mashup uses Twitter and Google Maps APIs to create a new application, which… Alex Iskold View comments