Martin Remy

  • MindSet, intent-driven search from Yahoo! Research

    This is very interesting. Yahoo Research MindSet is a search UI that includes a slider that lets you indicate your “intent” by moving a slider between shopping on one end and research on the other. It then re-ranks the search results accordingly. Works pretty well. Try a search for shoes or search for wind surfing.… Read more ⇢

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  • Bloglines search coming this summer

    Stephen Baker @ Businessweek: The CEO of Bloglines (now a division of AskJeeves) says that his company will release a blog search engine this summer which will surpass the likes of Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub. “The challenge,” he says, “is to create world-class blog search, which we don’t think exists now.” Of course, lots of… Read more ⇢

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  • The smallest flying web server in the world

    linuxdevices.com: Researchers at the University of Essex are using Linux and tiny embedded computer modules to build fleets of unmanned aircraft that fly in flocking formations like birds, while performing parallel, distributed computing tasks using Bluetooth-connected Linux clustering software… (Via boingboing) Read more ⇢

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  • BBC News Developer Network

    This is drawing a lot of interest this morning. May bring even more people into the news content game and increases the pressure on other news outlets to open up. BBC Backstage: backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC’s new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with. Alternatively, share your ideas on new ways to… Read more ⇢

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  • Grokker is back, as Yahoo! front end

    Grokker has resurfaced as a front-end for Yahoo! search results. Uses a Java plugin (why not Shockwave?) and devotes a sizeable chunk of the page to Overture ads. For some search use cases, the results are marginally more useful than Vivisimo‘s clusters, because instead of clusters being completely data-driven (as they appear to be on… Read more ⇢

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