I was reading this piece on Mashable, by the ever thought-provoking Steven Hodson. And true to form, my thoughts were provoked.
In that piece he talks about the importance of Social Media as the means to discovering top content. which seems to jibe with Louis Grays post about how the primary traffic drivers to his site [...]

Categories: google · search · social networks

Well it looks like Microsoft has just launched their Cashback program. You can check it out now by visiting the site. There you can search for products and if you click through and actually buy something get back what seems like about 1-4% (advertisers only pay Microsoft per sale).
Initially I thought this was going to [...]

Categories: microsoft · search

Huh. Just read about Mahalo’s new social network aggregation feature. As a concept I think this aggregation is an interesting idea, although, executions have thus far been pretty not great. I suspect nothing overly worthwhile will happen till data portability hits in one form or another…
Anyhow, I stomped over to Mahalo and registered me a [...]

Categories: search · social networks · wiki

So Wikia launched. There’s been no shortage of generally negative posts about it. I’ll add my voice to that dog pile.
The problem for me isn’t that its search results suck. It’s a preview or alpha release (or whatever) and it needs a little time to scale up, no that’s not the problem. The problem for [...]

Categories: review · search