Sunday, January 20, 2008

Gerry McGovern on...when search words are misleading

Gerry McGovern writes on When Search Words are Misleading on his Giraffe Forum blog. Some interesting concepts to consider on both ends of the spectrum - whether you are trying to improve on your search results, or to improve on your SEO, there's definitely something to be learned here.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Jimmy Wales Launches Wikia

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has just launched Wikia. Wikia offers open source searching that will, supposedly, be entirely free of commercial bias. To search on Wikia, hit the alpha version now live. Btw, Jimmy's blog makes for a great read for all those of you who believe information wants to be free! I just wish he'd update it a bit more frequently (although clearly he is VERY busy doing many other different things... :-)

Internet Audience Reaches 800 Million Mark!

A new report from comScore's qSearch 2.0 provides some phenomenal new statistics on Internet and search use worldwide. The Internet population is now fast approaching 800 million individuals. More astonishing still, at least 95% of those seem to be extremely and consistently active online, with approximately 750 million conducting Internet searches in the month of August 2007!