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, [...]

Anyone have experience with a company threatening legal action over what you wrote on a blog? I got a call today from a company attorney saying I must remove a certain page from my blog because it is libelous and because it appears on the first page of Google’s rankings. They said they wouldn’t have [...]

Well, after 3+ years at CNLP (Center for Natural Language Processing), I am leaving to join a startup. I must say it has been a lot of fun working with so many good people on so many interesting projects and I wish them all the best of luck in the future. I will post more [...]

Google seeks to extend Microsoft antitrust decree – Yahoo! News Does anyone get the feeling that in a few years Google is going to be on the other end of this equation?

Google Is Big Brother I’ve been getting this feeling more and more lately.   The thing is Yahoo! results are pretty much as good as Google’s, but their search page is so cluttered with other junk, that I don’t always want to go there.  I am, however, getting ready to make Yahoo! my default search.

Ask.com Web Search OK, so we keep hearing about all the new things Ask.com is up to (like Ask3D), but, in my opinion, they still are missing the key thing: quality results. I don’t care how pretty the look and feel is if I can’t rely on the results. Try, for instance, a search on [...]