Breakfast Links 08.01.2009

* TrustYou – make a good choice

I just stumbled upon a press release from TrustYou, a search engine for hotel and restaurant recommendations. TrustYou calls itself a semantic meta search engine. Meta because it makes use of various existing hotel recommendation platforms like HRS, hotel.de and more. Semantic because of its pre-processing methods for heterogeneous text data about hotels/restaurant and user comments. Yeah, finally a new alternaitve search engine from germany, chapeau!

See also this post: TrustYou durchsucht Hotel-Bewertungen (german)

* Google Semantics Surfacing

Stephen Arnold’s response to the article “Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?” from readwriteweb.com.

Breakfast Links 27.11.2008

I took some days off from blogging and just finished my dozens of unread RSS items.

* How the Semantic Web Will Change Information Management

Three predictions from fumsi about the role of the semantic web in the information management field. Those three predictions are not only about the topic of the semantic web in detail but describe how the semantic web could support models like the “push search paradigm”. In my opinion the semantic web is only manageable if you have tools supporting you, since “taxonomies” and models are in permanent change.

* Two Paths For Information Management Pros In An Economic Downturn

Matthew Brown on the upcoming challenges on Information Management in the current economic downturn.

* The Google Search Appliance Gets a Newsletter

Funny title which points more to Google’s efforts in the enterprise sector (GSA virtual edition) but also to the GSA newsletter availability.

Breakfast Links 29.10.2008

* Google Adds RSS Feeds For Web Search Results

Finally Google added RSS support to their web search result inside Google Alerts. You don’t have to scrape off stuff from Google Web Search anymore. But, RSS support in the ordinary Google Web Search page is still missing…

* A Project Taxonomy Can Avoid Hours of Frustration

Synaptica Central gives a short introduction in how they handle the development of taxonomies together with their clients based upon their Taxonomy Tool. From my past experience with clients and building taxonomies, using an easy to use web tool really pays off!

Breakfast Links 13.10.2008

* Anonymizing Google’s Server Log Data – How is it going?

Article on Google and Log Data anonymization and a great idea of a privacy dashboard to tell users which information is stored, for how long and even offer possibilities to delete such data.

Breakfast Links 09.10.2008

* Google Confirms RSS For Web Search Results

It is about time…

* Google’s Audio Indexing

Google is testing its Audio Indexing capabilities for the us election and indexed all videos inside YouTube’s politic channel. You can find the lab project called gaudi here: http://labs.google.com/gaudi

I already wrote a small article on how Google is using text clustering to improve their Google News service. It seems that Google starts to integrate text clustering in more and more of their services – last week they released a new Blog Search clustering feature to summarize topics in blogs. (I’m still waiting for the german version to test their text clustering quality)

Google Blog Search Start Page

On the Google Blog Search start page you don’t even have to search anymore, you can start discovering topics right away.

Google Blog Search, Clustering and Categorization

Beside the automatic clustering of similar topics you can choose between a category system based upon 11 categories.

When will Google start to integrate clustering in their ordinary yet boring google search? Where else on Google’s services is information clustering being used?

Breakfast Links 02.10.2008

* Synaptica and Co. about leading vendors in the Semantic Web

* Google’s Matt Cutts about Google Blogsearch and Techmeme

Breakfast Links 01.10.2008

* Schleswig-Holstein communities saying no to Google Street View and planning legal actions to protect themselves from Google

* Whole Travel beta released, a travel search engine with the possibility to rank results by sustainability

Breakfast Links 18.09.2008

Google on Artifical Intelligence
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-15-n61.html

Powerset Teams up with LiveSearch
http://searchengineland.com/080917-183851.php (Searchengineland)

Breakfast Links 17.09.2008

TinEye Image Search – Image Search Engine based on Image Similarity
http://tineye.com/

How Smart is Google’s Software
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/09/17/how-smart-is-googles-software/