Google has just failed an epic test of its mission. Great companies fail when they depart from their core values… when the pressures of competition and retaining market leadership cause a compromise of the very values that put the company into the stratosphere. Search Plus Your World (SPYW) is the product that marks the turning [...]

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(I lied in my last blog post.) The next big tech trend… I teased some of you about a week ago by saying I know what comes next in terms of big tech trends. My list of friends is very broad – it includes some hardcore technologists that wouldn’t consider mind-controlled helicopter piloting to be [...]

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I no longer blog here. Instead of deleting it, I’m leaving it up for posterity. For now. If you want to keep up with me, let’s connect on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook. There are links to me over to the right of this page. G    

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No doubt every generation views the changes occurring within their lifetime as historical and monumental. And we can debate where the real time web fits into communication’s evolutionary path that includes cave paintings, the printing press, and Radio Corporation of America (RCA). But, what’s not up for debate is that we’re seeing some real game-changing [...]

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Good search market landscape article on Wired.com

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I guest blogged today on Altsearchengines about realtime search, social search… differences and interrelationship. Might be interesting to you if you seek clarification about what realtime means and how it all fits together. Check it out at altsearchengines.com

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Gerry Campbell coins the term Sensor Media to explain the proliferation of expressed content and its impact on traditional news.

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If you haven’t seen it, Stocktwits just announced the close of its latest round of funding. Happy to add to my Stocktwits seed participation. I like this company because it’s a real user-driven community based on top of the Twitter platform. And I don’t use the term community lightly – there is a social norm [...]

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I snagged this from Swivel.com. Great site for datageeks. Interesting how Miles traveled is resilient to gas prices. Drivers have a high elasticity in gas prices… I wonder how high/low gas prices have to go to change behavior… BTW, this data is a little old. Also, I am crafting a new post right now. It’s [...]

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* In 2003 when I had been heading up AOL Search for a while, we began to bang structured data into search results pages on a query-by-query basis. We used pre-formatted javascript templates that were selected based on keywords, and filled from the freshest, most relevant data we could find. In today’s parlance we had [...]

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