Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan has the scoop of Yahoo’s latest beta-product, Yahoo Search Assist. an iteration on type-ahead tools like Google Suggest or Yahoos own Search Suggest, Search Assist selectively suggests terms for refining a query by clustering common keywords within search-results. this should basically help in situations when users struggle to find the [...]
Mitch Kapor’s (inventor of Lotus 1-2-3, co-founder of the EFF) bookmark-synchronizing utility for Firefox-based browsers, foxmarks, is about to enter the market of human-powered search engines – a space currently heating up – not only since the recent launch of Mahalo. the search engine will utilize user-generated metadata on URLs to deliver – according to [...]
people – even less tech-savvy ones – are starting to create all kinds of interesting Pipes…
automated babelfish-translation (english -> german) of Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code show-notes
P2P-Blog utlitizes a custom del.icio.us-tag to keep track of all blog-posts you have commented on
this pipe mashes data from Yahoo! Local with flickr to find localized imagest
Nick Bradbury’s YouTunes [...]
wow, the whole web is singing the praises of Yahoo! Tubes Pipes, a new mashup-service announced earlier today. unfortunately, the Pipes-servers haven’t been responding for most of the evening, Yahoo’s engineers have either underestimated the impact of this announcement or the ressources a service which could be described best as universal RSS-mashup-engine might suck up. [...]
Yahoo!’s mashup OurCity retrieves location-based data from various Yahoo!-properties. photos from flickr, bookmarks from del.icio.us and events from Upcoming together with news-clips, blogs & podcasts draw an appropriate picture of the city. currently in early beta, the service is available for Delhi & Bangalore only.
(screenshot courtesy of GigaOM)
this time for real: MyBlogLog goes to Yahoo! for an estimated $10-12mio. integration with Yahoo 360 or flickr might be the next logical steps, driving mainstream-adoption of MyBlogLog.
Anothr.com is a Skype-bot pushing instant IM-notifications on new feed-items for any given RSS-feed. the chinese service currently seems to struggle under heavy load (or maybe it’s just [...]
endless.com – Amazon’s speciality shopping site for handbags and shoes is the eCommerce giant’s answer to niche-site like.com – though it lacks adavanced features like visual search.
two years ago, Technorati was one of the first sites to introduce the concept of tagging (aka ‘folksonomy’, a term relating to taxonomy). a good time for an update [...]
several deals got public within the past 24 hours:
acquisition of swedisch mobile service company Kennet Works earlier this year got confirmed on GigaOM today. Kennet Works seems to work on ‘mobile real-time communities’. there’s not really any info on their product Kennet Community Connect on their website, however.
karaoke & video-contest site Bix became a Yahoo!-property [...]
years after the big search-players agreed on nofollow-directives and robots.txt-controlled exclusions, Danny Sullivan reports that Microsoft & Yahoo have announced to join Google’s sitemap-effort, an XML-protocol allowing webmasters to optimize the crawling of dynamic web-content:
Overall, I’m thrilled. It took nearly a decade for the search engines to go from unifying around standards for blocking [...]
TechCrunch reports tonights addition of geotagging-features to flickr. using a slick AJAX-interface, photos can be drag&dropped on Yahoo! Maps for adding geo-information. using flickr’s photo-organizer, batches of photos are easily processed in a single step. users can browse their own and public photos by geographic data and generate maps displaying all their photos. geo-features were [...]
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