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Article Archive for March 2010
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – Worth how much?
Facebook Inc. is worth almost 10 times as much as Twitter Inc., in the latest effort to place values on startups that haven’t gone public or been acquired.
Toyota turns to the real-time web to help revive its reputation
After recalling 8.5 million cars and sending its CEO around the world to apologize, automaker Toyota is in crisis mode. But the company is hoping that a few tweets will help repair some of the …
Google Puts SearchWiki Out Of Its Misery, Replaces It With Cute Stars
Personalized search is something that we all know Google feels strongly about. Today, the search giant is adding a new feature to help users mark searches: Stars. So when you see search results, you can …
Virgin America dumps Flash over lack of iPhone support
As the smack down between Apple and Adobe continues, Virgin America has dumped Flash from its website because of the lack of iPhone support. Virgin’s new website, which launched Monday, replaces Flash with HTML to …
Google ‘personalizes’ one in five searches
Speaking this afternoon at the search-obsessed SMX West conference in Santa Clara, Horling – a developer with Google’s personalized search team – said that up to one in five searches are tailored to the user’s particular location, web history, or online contacts. “As it stands today,” Horling explained, “between these three techniques, just about every user who’s engaging with Google search today is affected.”
Google Research head dubs holy PageRank over-hyped
Google research head Peter Norvig says that the search giant’s hallowed PageRank link analysis algorithm is overrated. And always has been.
“One thing that I think is still over-hyped is PageRank,” Norvig said this morning during …