Category: AI, Data, Search

  • Whither Tagging?

    Susan Mernit asks some interesting questions about tagging’s scalability in this post: … 1. How well will tagging work as an organizing and information retrieval method when there are millions…

  • Yahoo: linked blogs != searched blogs

    Interesting informal experiment in the Yahoo! Buzz Log: Do you find blogs via links or through search? We wanted to know, so we lined up the top 20 blogs in…

  • See blogs near you on Google Earth with Blogdigger Local

    Greg Gershman has built a cool application of Google Earth. You can jump from Blogdigger Local search results to Google Earth and see markers for all of the blogs in…

  • The newspaper of the future

    Interesting article in Sunday’s NYT about a Lawrence, Kansas paper including user-generated content in a big way: “I don’t think of us as being in the newspaper business,” said Mr.…

  • SearchEngineWatch joins the link counting fray

    Danny Sullivan is skeptical about the accuracy of Google’s and Yahoo’s results counts, used by Tristan Louis in two studies, which concluded that Yahoo has better coverage of blogs than…