Search engines
Two words about the new Google interface: Its awful
Google rolled out its new search interface and i already started to hate it. I don’t know what was in their mind. Did they try to copy Bing ? Because Bing is awful too. That’s why i don’t use it. Apart from the odd colors they’ve put the URL’s in the search results at the [...]
Only one search engine left?
It seems that Microsoft’s Bing is In flagrante delicto. Google’s official blog and Danny Sullivan at Searchengineland revealed that in fact Bing is copying Google’s results whenever it suits him. I will not comment on the morality of this decision from Bing but rather on something that Danny Sullivan observed about “search voices” : “For [...]
Prediction: 2011 – the year when Google will turn into an enemy
When a new year starts everyone is making predictions or lists of predictions on blogs and newspapers. More or less i will make a prediction myself. But it will be only one prediction. I think that 2011 will be the year when we will witness something that a few years ago we couldn’t believe. I [...]
Sig.ma or Semantic Information Mashup
I’ve discovered today an interesting site. It’s called sig.ma and it is a data aggregator for the semantic web. It seems that it has been launched recently (22 july 2009). What does it do ? It aggregates structured data from the web for the users keyword. For example if you enter Europe in the search [...]
Wolfram Alpha is impressive. Very impressive
I’ve finally had some time and tested the recently launched and much hyped Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine. Make no mistake, this is not a classic search engine. The “computational knowledge engine” phrase really has meaning. If you’re expecting search results similar to those of Google’s then you’re in the wrong place. But what Wolfram [...]
