Martin Remy

  • Fallows on getting answers

    Great column on the state of search by James Fallows in today’s New York Times (online version here), entitled “Enough Keyword Searches, Just Answer My Question”. Fallows doesn’t mince words. Search engines are so powerful. And they are so pathetically weak … for anything but simple keyword queries, even the best search engines are surprisingly… Read more ⇢

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  • The nature of blog search

    The new Technorati is beautiful. The UI is beautifully conceived and lavishly rendered, and completes the integration of tags and photos with search that Technorati has been working on for some time. It strikes me as the first of its generation of blog search engines that has fully grown up to be what it wants… Read more ⇢

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  • Blog Search news roundup

    Peter Caputa has a concise roundup of blog search news from this week. Read more ⇢

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  • Google's "Secret Lab"? Ho-hum.

    Henk van Ess makes a dramatic show of scooping a story about a Google “Secret Lab”, which consists of an army of students worldwide that rate Google search results and new features using an eval UI. Ho-hum. I’m not steeped enough in Googlemania to know whether this is some kind of scandal, e.g. whether Google… Read more ⇢

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  • Blogebrity

    Now that’s funny. The Blogebrity site is an entry in this contest to create an effective viral marketing site. I dunno, maybe this kind of thing is even instructive to some people, but a little satire is good enough for me. I’ll leave it to others to cover the marketing lessons in this. (Via Micro… Read more ⇢

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