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Out on a limb: Why the Yahoo! Fiasco is Good for Yahoo!

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

OK, let me just start by saying my confidence in what I am about to say is just over 50%, say 50.1%, but I’m going to say it anyway:
I can’t help but wonder if all these execs leaving Y! is a good thing.  Seriously.  Where have they gotten Y! to date?  Time for some fresh [...]

User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine - Yahoo! News

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine - Yahoo! News
One concern with a community-based system is that users will try to “game the system,” deleting references to competitors or engaging in trash talk in the comments. “We should see some fierce edit wars on this one,” noted Erick Schonfeld on the TechCrunch blog.
As if no [...]

Google Leads Attack on Microsoft-Yahoo Merger - Yahoo! News

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Google Leads Attack on Microsoft-Yahoo Merger - Yahoo! News
In a Google Blog post Sunday, David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, called on regulators to examine “thoroughly” the questions raised by Microsoft’s offer, while reminding everyone that Google stands for “openness and innovation.”
What do people think?  Is Google open?  My gut says no, but I [...]

More On Wikia Search

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Dennis Kubes has a nice response on the Lucene mailing list about what Wikia is up to and I think it goes a long way in showing that most of the pundits (TechCrunch) out there just don’t get it.  They are BUILDING a search engine.  It is not complete.  It is an open source project.  [...]

Analyst: Wikia Search Fails To Deliver - Yahoo! News

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Analyst: Wikia Search Fails To Deliver - Yahoo! News
“But one analyst said he isn’t so sure Wales’ efforts do much to improve the current model.”
My god, give me a break.  It’s an ALPHA release.  This is what people don’t get about open source.  In open source, you put everything out there almost all the time.  [...]

Can Social Search Take Down Google? - Yahoo! News

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Can Social Search Take Down Google? - Yahoo! News
“I think he doesn’t really understand the scale of what Google has to handle in terms of the queries from around the world and the amount of traffic that flows to it and the attempts that are made to try to manipulate it,” said Danny Sullivan, editor [...]