Monthly Archives: September 2008

Speaking of the future of search, consider experimenting with Hakia. This tool describes itself as a semantic search engine that focuses on extracting and unearthing meaningful results. Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, has recently talked about “trustworthiness” on the … Continue reading →

Happy Birthday, Google! Google celebrates its 10th. As this article notes, Google has become synonymous with search. It’s in our dictionaries as both a noun and a verb. This piece also highlights other tools and peers into the future of … Continue reading →

Be sure to skim the findings of Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 report. Blogs have become an important source of information and content. Thankfully tools such as Google Blog Search and Technorati exist to help us scour the collective … Continue reading →

The rise of YouTube has generated interest in online video. This article states that consumer are interested in watching more TV shows and movies over the Web. Some TV networks offer episodes online. Also, specific sites such Hulu help searchers … Continue reading →

Search industry giant Google sketches the future of search in this piece picked up by Yahoo! News. So what’s ahead? In short, cloud computing. A heady concept no doubt. Time to read up about this paradigm. Start with the Wikipedia … Continue reading →

Web founder and pioneer Tim Berners-Lee calls for a standard of trustworthiness on the Web and suggests a labelling system that would weed out unreliable content for users . . . according to this BBC news item. Also of interest … Continue reading →