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LinkedIn Launches Streamlined People Search
Not really, but in the link above, TechCrunch has a link to a YouTube video done by Esteban Kozak from LinkedIn.  In it Esteban, searches for Lucene and I come up right near the top!  The screen capture from TechCrunch also features my name and mug.  Too funny!  Even scarier is [...]

Came across this article on /. (Slashdot | The Stigma of a Tech Support Background) and it got me thinking about the person’s problem and some advice I’ve given a some recent grads that I have worked with.   As I see it, the biggest problem a hiring manager has with someone straight out of college [...]

User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine – Yahoo! News
One concern with a community-based system is that users will try to “game the system,” deleting references to competitors or engaging in trash talk in the comments. “We should see some fierce edit wars on this one,” noted Erick Schonfeld on the TechCrunch blog.
As if no [...]

What Would Microsoft Do with Yahoo’s Zimbra? – Yahoo! News
Or, perhaps this is Microsoft’s “out”…  Basic premise, MS buys Y! which is doing a lot more to support Open Source these days.  MS has always been viewed as anti Open Source because of the Linux debacle, among other things.  Buying Y! gives them a way [...]

Can Social Search Take Down Google? – Yahoo! News
“I think he doesn’t really understand the scale of what Google has to handle in terms of the queries from around the world and the amount of traffic that flows to it and the attempts that are made to try to manipulate it,” said Danny Sullivan, editor [...]