What Is A Search Engine? You Have No Idea Apparently

One of my favorite blogs, that I read just about every day is readwriteweb, a sterling tech, web 2.0 and search blog. Not so long ago their AltSearchEngines regular article was turned into a fully fledged blog in its own right headed by Charles Knight who knows about the existence of more search engines than probably anybody else on the net.

I checked it out this morning and spotted an interesting article:

Today we launch Part I of our 3 Part Series

Part I: What is a Search Engine? by Nitin Karandikar (Mon)

Oh glominy! I thought, glibbily. This is right up my street so I settled in for a powerful, thought provoking read.

Sunbeam Is Your Search Engine

Taking a look at how Sunbeam is polishing up in the final stages of development. Read on for more details on the search engine that runs from your own desktop, and knows how you think.

I Can Has Likkle Written Contentz?

The internet is an odd place, as I look at wordpress.com right now I see the top few blogs are I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?, passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers and of course Scobleizer.

Fear Of Google: As Seen On Google Timeline!

I saw over on Valleywag they’ve written yet another hack piece on the so-called Fear Of Google with the standard sensationalism and lack of humour. They’ve even drawn a pretty graph they collated data on from the Nexis newspaper database showing their spectacular lack of knowledge on current Google events.

Search From Jason Calcanis? Valleywag Will Post Anything

Over at Valleywag they’ve ushered out a new speculative article on the next move of Jason Calcanis, the Silicon Valley entrepeneur who sold his blog network to AOL Time Warner for a multi million dollar sum:

“several people, in a position to know of his plans, say these schemes are at most hobbies, or pure disinformation; the next venture is a search engine.”

Activists or Mob? The First Digg Riots

This morning I came into work, I ran some SEO checks on a few sites and started up FireFox. As usual I browsed speculatively towards Digg for my hit of the overnight news that just wouldn’t be covered in the Metro newspaper I’d browsed through on the bus.

At first I couldn’t work out exactly what had happened. The following code was written everywhere :
09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

Through my sleepy haze I realised it was the code for unlocking HD-DVD protection that I’d seen a couple of times on stories the previous day. It transpires that Digg were actively deleting the stories featuring this seemingly unthreatening code in response to a cease and desist letter.