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White male seeks single search engine

Posted in english, search on April 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »

As I store more and more data in different online applications, the need for a search engine that can search across them all becomes apparent.
I have photos on Flickr, blog posts here on my blog, bookmarks in Spurl.net, contribute to several project Wikis, have written articles for a number of diferent online publications, edit documents [...]

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Spurl launches an Icelandic search engine

Posted in english, langtech, search on December 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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Google and user driven search indexes

Posted in search on May 9, 2005 | 2 Comments »

Needless to say, I am a firm believer that the next big steps in web search will come from involving the users more in the ranking and indexing process.
The best search engines on the web have always been built around human information. In the early days, Yahoo! was the king, first based on Jerry [...]

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Coming to terms with tags: folksonomies, tagging systems and human information

Posted in search on April 13, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Over the past few years we’ve seen a big movement from hierarchical categories to flat search. Web navigation and email offer prime examples: Yahoo’s Directories gave way for Google’s search, Outlook’s folders are giving way for the search based Gmail. It’s far more efficient to come up with and type in a few relevant [...]

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Is search the “next spam”?

Posted in search on October 11, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

I was a panelist at a local conference on Internet marketing here in Iceland last Friday.
As you can imagine, a lot of the time was spent on talking about marketing using search engines. Both how to use paid for placement (i.e. ads) and how to optimize pages to rank better in the natural search [...]

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