Personalization
Google Search Options observed in the wild
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009Google announced today an innovation in the search experience roughly the same degree of magnitude as Universal Search. They call it Search Options and it was revealed at Searchology.
I observed several aspects of it earlier today and it seems that it will be coming to a query near you soon.
Here is a screen capture of [...]
“Image is Everything” with Visual Search
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008We’ve all heard the clichés about pictures and images through various commercials, songs, and stories. “Image is everything”, “Picture perfect”, “Every picture tells a story”, and “A picture is worth a thousand words” are some of the more common clichés we all know and love. In today’s fast-paced Internet world, the visual representation of [...]
Hate “.com”? How About a New, Totally Branded Domain?
Friday, June 27th, 2008Tired of .com, .org, and .net? .biz or .mobi not doing it for you?
“Let a thousand domains flower …”
For 6 figures apiece.
As reported in today’s NY Times, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) announced yesterday in Paris that it would soon allow companies, organizations, or countries to use new suffixes in their [...]
Are We Too Excited About Personalization?
Thursday, December 6th, 2007The good thing about these conferences, including Search Engine Strategies in Chicago this week, is that they put some issues in perspective.
In other words, there has been a big buzz about personalization on Google this year. Any change is going to have its pros and cons. So why not make search more relevant to a user [...]

