http://blog.billbrantley.com Random notes on politics, government, science, and technology. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/01/22/lack-of-innovation-in-search-propelling-social-networks/ http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/01/22/lack-of-innovation-in-search-propelling-social-networks/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:50:46 +0000 bill http://blog.billbrantley.com/?p=116 Stowe Boyd promises three reasons why social networks are killing search but only delivers one.  But it is a big reason – lack of innovation in search technology.  I think that the increasing adoption of the semantic web will spur a new wave of innovation in search.  Maybe a merger of search and social media?

]]> http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/01/22/lack-of-innovation-in-search-propelling-social-networks/feed/ 0 http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/01/07/its-not-who-builds-the-better-search-engine/ http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/01/07/its-not-who-builds-the-better-search-engine/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:11:55 +0000 bill http://blog.billbrantley.com/?p=85 It’s who can deliver the real promise of the Internet – the right answer.  Bob Pritchett explains how Google “destroyed the web” with their innovative approach to search.  “Do no evil” falls prey to the evil of unintended consequences.

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