But think about the Facebook generation. My kids are growing up with the news feed as their start page. Not Yahoo’s portal approach and NOT Google’s search box approach. In time, its entirely possible that feeds will be more powerful than search.
A VC on Feeds
8 September 2008
7 September 2008
Google has become the 8000 pound search Gorilla. During their meteoric growth there has been a trend that people’s expectations have gotten higher and their attention span shorter. There was a time when people would click though a page, two or even three of search results, but that is not so common any more. Today, if you don’t rank in the top 3, searchers will barely notice your listing.
Grok on Google
3 August 2008
But there’s one other really important thing about the “lazy web”. It’s smarter. My friend Vanessa looked at the first response to my question on yoga in Curitiba and saw it was a google result. She said to me “I can do that and have done it. It’s not a good yoga studio. I want a good one.” An hour or so later, I got a name of a person in Brazil who would know the answer. And that’s the direct hit we wanted. Google can’t do that. People can. And do. And do so publicly. And when I get value from lazy web queries, you can bet I’ll reciprocate when I am on the receiving end of them.
A VC on Lazy Web
23 June 2008
A Google search may or may not lead them to valuable resources online, but many students today clearly don’t know how to differentiate between what’s legitimate and what’s not. Being able to look at a piece of information online and challenge it in order to determine whether or not it is a fact is simply not a skill that many online users have. However, once this process is learned, students can apply it throughout their education - no matter what medium they use for research.
ReadWriteWeb on Information
12 May 2008
As a search tool it is more interesting than useful, shining in only a few, pre-selected cases. The advantages over Google are so minimal and the defects so large that I would never consider using this as my main means of searching Wikipedia, let alone the Web at large. To me this product smells like a tech demo, not a fully-featured product launch, intended to convince someone outside Powerset that they really are producing something amazing.
20 bits on Powerset
15 March 2008
Imagine, the sum of human knowledge accessible by a computer to query? Semantic web applications are boring and you won’t ever get them - but what they enable, is a whole new world of potential which once we can flick the switch, will mean a world we will barely recognise from today’s standpoint.
Liako on Semantic Web
2 February 2008
One of the most important talents one can nurture now is to hone the skill of searching on the Internet; Google and other search engines in particular, and then add the skill of filtration in how to accept or reject the information gathered.
Mahmood Al-Yousif on Googlisation
21 January 2008
Based on doing site:markmail.org queries: Google has indexed 760k pages, Yahoo 19k, and MSN 4k. It’s not just the search algorithm that matters, it’s also the crawl algorithm, and we have a clear winner here.
O’Reilly on Google