I’ve just had a very interesting experience that sheds light on some important issues regarding copyright, online data and crowdsourced media such as wikis. I thought I’d share the story to spark a debate on these issues.
For a couple of years I’ve worked on and off on a simple web based system for maintaining [...]
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Adventures in copyright: Open access, data and wikis
Posted in General, Philosophy, data, english, langtech on April 18, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Spurl launches an Icelandic search engine
Posted in english, langtech, search on December 15, 2005 | No Comments »
Originally posted on the Spurl.net forums on November 1st 2005
Spurl.net just launched an Icelandic search engine with the leading local portal / news site mbl.is. Although Iceland is small, mbl.is is a nice, mid-size portal with some 210,000 unique visitors per week - so this has significant exposure.
The search engine is called Embla - it’s [...]





