Turns out that real-time Twitter search in Google isn’t such a big thing

Not even a few months the idea if incorporating Twitter results real-time in your searches on both google and Bing were all the rage. People pontificated on how this was going to change the whole search landscape. ... continue

Are we in for a shift in the search engine biz?

In the technology and Internet world things can change before even the first ripples begin to spread through the Web. For almost as long as most of us can remember Google has been the leader in search. ... continue

Hey Google, customer support needed on line 1, line 2, line 3

Google has been pretty lucky so far but that luck is soon going to run out. They almost brushed with fate when they released Google Apps for the enterprise but even there they get a pass for ... continue

Twitter’s never-ending guessing game – numbers and value

Up until near the end of 2009 much of the web spent its time speculating about Twitter and how it was ever going to make the kind of money to justify the massive $1 billion valuation that ... continue

The fallacy of the Link Economy

Since the very beginnings of blogs there has been this concept of bloggers freely linking out to other blogger's posts when referenced in some way. The idea behind this is that besides adding substance to one's own ... continue

Microsoft & News Corp – what is good for the goose should be good for the gander

Even though the US is heading into turkey weekend the discussion around Microsoft cutting deals to de-list from Google and go strictly with Bing with any newspaper organization willing to listen continues unabated. In two past posts here ... continue

Microsoft once more proves you can indeed buy stupidity

I am not sure if you can put a price on stupidity or not; but I am pretty sure that if you could weasel out of Steve Ballmer how much this possible getting into bed with the ... continue

Time for Google, and Microsoft, to call Murdock’s bluff

There's been a lot of go-round this past week about Rupert Murdock yanking everyone's chain about pulling their content from Google unless the search giant is willing to cough up some money for the privilege of indexing News Corp ... continue

Your Google PageRank may soon depend how fast your site loads – Why?

Google has been making a lot of news over the past while about how it wants to help speed up the web; and as nice as that might be it has gotten more than a few people ... continue

The hashtag jungle of real time search

Last week my partners in crime over at The Cynical Bastards podcast talked about the deals that Twitter had made with both Microsoft and Google that would allow both companies access to the fire hose of information ... continue

Google – the new playground of malware scum

It's bad enough when regular sites get hijacked by people who want to fill your computer with all kinds of spyware and other assorted types of malware but when they start manipulating Google search results I think ... continue

Looking at the nuances of the Twitter search deals

Well there is no denying that today was an interesting one when it comes to the world of search and the real time web. From everything I have read so far today everyone seems to be of ... continue