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February 24, 2005
All Quiet in the Western Front
I must apologize for our lack of commentary recently. This has been due to a very hectic period in our work, but we hope to be able to come back shortly.
Stay tuned.
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February 14, 2005
The End Of Scientific Revolutions?
Francis Fukuyama talked 16 years ago about The End of History - and in a sense revised later on Our Posthuman Future.
Taking things a step further the present status of society and science research and development can actually signify an end to scientific revolutions.
Interested in more details? Well, then you can certainly help us by voting for the article proposal in changethis.com.
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February 10, 2005
Yahoo! Trusts Firefox
Yahoo! is paying real attention to the 25 million downloads that Firefox already has and has launched a beta version of Yahoo! Firefox toolbar. The toolbar not only installs a search box on the browser but may also - if the user agrees - make Yahoo! the default search in the browser.
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February 07, 2005
Advertisments....
A quote by Thomas Jefferson that I just came upon:
'Advertisments contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper'
So are paid links are the only links one can rely upon in a search engine?
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February 02, 2005
The New MSN Search
The New MSN Search is out so hurry up to get the beauty of it hot. Microsoft has definitely done a very good work with this one and I am quite impressed with it. Here are my first comments on experimenting with the new Gates machine.
- It seems to be a lot like yahoo (than like google) in the algorithm. Comparison of some of the results for random keywords show a good feeling of affinity between the engines. Of course more research is needed for this.
- It is very fast and rather elegant in the presentation of the results.
- Although it is obvious that the database of crawled sites is not as massive as the Google database the results produced are nicely relevant and I would think the engine would satisfy almost anyone looking for sites or information. After all sometimes its not size that matters.
- Blogs seem to be rather prominent in the results. Reemember the good Google season about two years ago when blogs were 'promoted' in SERPs? It seems that these days are back for bloggers through both Yahoo! and MSN search - ask to follow?
- Its nothing special. It is annoying to wait for so long for a new innovative product and simply get a copy of all current search engines in a slightly saltier flavor. Microsoft isn't usually the one to take the bold step in such matters but I was expecting a step forward from them.
So can the engine as it exists at the moment pose a threat to Yahoo! and Google? I suppose it does, in the same way as a Sony ipod given free with every other Sony product would be a threat to Apple.
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