Sep 26

The Pandia team is going to Seville, Spain, next week, to take part in a seminar arranged by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), a Joint Research Centre under the European Commission.
There is actually great interest in search in European innovation policy circles. This is partly because of its great socio-economic role.
Search is a growing forward looking industry in its own right. Moreover, it has been shaping the world around us in a profound way, which brings up questions regarding learning, innovation, social equality, privacy and more.
Given the clout the Commission has regarding competition and privacy issues, American owned search giants like Google are acutely aware of the need to communicate their views to the Europeans.
At the seminar, called “Socio-Economic Challenges of Search”, IPTS has asked various experts to debate topics like:

New and disruptive and groundbreaking applications

The interaction between search and the social web

Competition in the search [...]

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Sep 22

One of our favorites among the search engines is the leading European search engine Exalead. Exalead has recently updated its image search engine with several major improvements.
By Panda Guest Writer Lars Våge, Internetbrus
Exalead’s interface has become much better and could now be the most ingenious of all of the big image search services online.
The results are now presented just as thumbnails with information on the original image resolution beneath.
If you let your cursor hover above the images, Exalead will show some very relevant links. You may, for instance, save the image with one click. Such an operation will require three or more click when using Google or one of the others.
You can go directly to the original size version of the image (as opposed to clicking two times with the other search engines). Moreover, you may go directly to the web page containing the original image without getting [...]

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Sep 20

Here are some of this week’s headlines from the world of search and search engines:

Google Searches at 63% of the Search Market for August 2008
Google saw 63% of the 11.7 billion core searches conducted in the U.S. during the late summer month. (SE Watch Sept 19 2008)

Google’s “Submit Your Content” Page Changes Into Content Central, One Stop Shopping For Publisher Advice
To help centralize submission and inclusion information, Google has updated its Submit Your Content page to make it more into what I’d call Content Central (Danny Sullivan Sept 18 2008)

Yahoo Adds a Soundtrack to the SERP
You can play up to 25 of the new full-length tracks in Yahoo SERPs per month. (Marketing Pilgrim Sept 18 2008)

Google Maps for mobile! Geared Up With Street View and Walking Directions!
An entirely new as well as exciting version has been launched for Google Maps For Mobile. (PageTraffic Sept 18 2008)

That Was Fun, But Now [...]

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Sep 20

If you happen to be in London in early December, maybe we could meet and discuss search engines and searching. Pandia is taking part in the December 1 to 4 Online Information Conference.
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations and expert on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies will open the 2008 conference with a keynote address that examines “Every piece of information is a latent community.”
Clay’s keynote will, according to the organizers (Incisive Media) explore how published information can call a topic-specific community into being, by linking together the people who gather around it.
The whole conference is devoted to online information trends, including:

Web 2.0 breakthroughs, consolidation and pay back

The challenges of information organisation and retrieval in a semantic world

Information professionals – surviving and thriving the information world implosion

Among the topics covered are ebooks, copyrights, intranets, digital companies, user generated content, [...]

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Sep 16

Social search is upon us: A new brand of search engines is taking shape right now. In July we covered Scour, a new social meta search engine that encourages voting and commentary on its query results. In order to give you a glimpse behind the scenes of a social search engine in the making, we have interviewed Scour CEO Dan Yomtobian.
Pandia: Why does Scour pay registered users for their comments and ratings?
Dan Yomtobian: For Scour to function as a social community, it is important to reach a critical mass of contributions. We hope that the reward system fosters community-building.
Given the current economic climate, personal finances are becoming a concern for many individuals. We think there is an interest in makeing a little easy money by simply doing something you always do anyway.
Pandia: Seeing as you reward comments, isn’t there a risk that people will leave virtually useless comments [...]

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Sep 15

FeedForAll has been embraced by customers around the world. FeedForAll is used in 74 countries to create rss feeds, podcasts, and videocasts around the world! Though many customers purchase an English version they create feeds in a variety of languages. The diversity of the FeedForAll audience and customer base is really quite impressive, especially for an application and product line  that is only four years old.
A huge thank you to our customer base from around the globe!
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Sep 12

We have put together a basic how to guide for people interested in manually creating an RSS feed. The tutorial explains the basics of how to create an RSS feed.
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Sep 11

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Sep 10

Google has decided to reduce the period it keeps personal information in its datalogs by half, from 18 to 9 months.
Google will now anonymize IP adresses on their servers at an earlier stage.
Google has been in conflict with the EU Commission on this issue.
Since IP addresses are shifted around by Internet service providers, Google has argued that the IP address cannot be used to identify individuals. EU disagrees.
Google is using the data to improve it search results, prevent fraud and to target its text ads more accurately.
In a blog post Peter Fleischer of Google says that:
“We’re significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users.”
That Google is trying to handle PR problem (”address regulatory concern”) is obvious, but it is interesting to note that the previous arrangement was not good enough, and that it is [...]

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Sep 8

Google gives away face recognition technology for free. But what happens if this technology becomes part of regular web search? Is there any privacy left?
The image oriented part of the social web is dominated by Yahoo’s Flickr.
Google also has its own image tools, however: There is the Picasa software for Windows and Linux, a free photo organizer, and Picasa web albums, an online photo sharing service like Flickr.
NRKBeta, a blog run by The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, explains how the newest version of the Picasa Windows software opens up new possibilities: It is, to a reasonable extent, able to recognize faces.
Google puts it this way:

Instead of tagging your photos individually, you can quickly identify and label many photos with one click.

Name tags help you automatically find similar faces in your photo collection. All you have to do is enter a name or choose from your contacts.

Once you’ve named the [...]

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