Two Roundups of New Search Technology and Services Available
If you’re in need of a couple of roundups that look at various search tools and services, two of them are online today. One in Time magazine and the other in The Boston Globe. It’s likely that the services and companies mentioned in these articles will be “new” to many readers of these publications. However, we’ve discussed and linked to many of them on the SEW Blog during the past year.
Time magazine’s: On the Frontier of Search, and the Boston Globe article: Cutting through search-engine clutter, include mentions of:
Time
NOTE: I was interviewed by a Time reporter for this story.
Boston Globe
Quotes
“Search will ultimately be as good as having 1,000 human experts who know your tastes scanning billions of documents within a split second. It will model the human brain.” Gary Flake, Distinguished Engineers at Microsoft
Note: Dr. Flake is the former head of Yahoo Research Labs. Here’s an interview that I did with Dr. Flake in 2004.