Is it just me, or is Yahoo! search as good as GoogleMeister MeisterGoogle these days? I’ve defaulted to Google for a long time, but lately I don’t like how “big” they’ve gotten and I think it is wise to spread my searches around.  At any rate, up until 6 mos. ago I never felt Y! [...]

OK, let me just start by saying my confidence in what I am about to say is just over 50%, say 50.1%, but I’m going to say it anyway: I can’t help but wonder if all these execs leaving Y! is a good thing.  Seriously.  Where have they gotten Y! to date?  Time for some [...]

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 [...]

Google Leads Attack on Microsoft-Yahoo Merger – Yahoo! News In a Google Blog post Sunday, David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, called on regulators to examine “thoroughly” the questions raised by Microsoft’s offer, while reminding everyone that Google stands for “openness and innovation.” What do people think?  Is Google open?  My gut says no, but [...]

Dennis Kubes has a nice response on the Lucene mailing list about what Wikia is up to and I think it goes a long way in showing that most of the pundits (TechCrunch) out there just don’t get it.  They are BUILDING a search engine.  It is not complete.  It is an open source project.  [...]

Analyst: Wikia Search Fails To Deliver – Yahoo! News “But one analyst said he isn’t so sure Wales’ efforts do much to improve the current model.” My god, give me a break.  It’s an ALPHA release.  This is what people don’t get about open source.  In open source, you put everything out there almost all [...]