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Microsoft's new Bing iPhone app

mohit — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:42:23 GMT

Initial review look very positive.

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Bing: What Would Sun Tzu Tell Microsoft? « SmoothSpan Blog

mohit — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:21:52 GMT

Another insightful post from SmoothSpan, this time on Microsoft and search.

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Woz Bing! Apple Co Founder a "Big Fan" of Microsofts New Search Engine: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance

mohit — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:30:08 GMT

Quoted: "That was the most astounding software demo I've every seen," Wozniak tells Tech Ticker after seeing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Bing at the All Things Digital Conference here.

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Live Search

mohit — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:05:16 GMT

Live.com is feature Mumbai as the background image today.

Quoted: Find exactly what you are looking for - FAST! With Live Search.

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Google, It Wasn’t Broke

mohit — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:12:09 GMT

I do think search + community could work together well (duh). However, I think some aspects of Google's implementation are confusing. And, I'm surprised Google didn't launch it as an experimental feature first.

Specific complaints:
1) Promote/Remove: I don't really get the value. If there is value, it is certainly not immediately obvious. Does promoting it just affect me, or does it affect everybody? What if I click remove, and the underlying page changes to the point that it now might be valuable? I just want Google to do the right thing without me having to train it.
2) I have a "Note This" and "Comment" links at the bottom of my search results. That "feels" a little redundant.

Also, I wonder why Google just didn't keep the Star/Share metaphors that they use on their other products.

Quoted: Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing. But to mess with the real Google search is serious stuff. Why did they do ...

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This Hosted Life » Optimizing Web Sites for Search Traffic

mohit — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:25:15 GMT

The Anatomy of a Search Engine

mohit — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:46:35 GMT

Reread this after a long time. Definitely a classic -- both for the quality of thinking (duh) and how clearly and succinctly it is written.

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Microsoft plans to use Powerset to tailor search - LiveSide - News blog

mohit — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:18:02 GMT

Bill Gates is not 100% retired from Microsoft after all and is still "working on search".

Quoted: However the news isn’t all bleak, as Microsoft believes strongly in the potential advantages provided by Powerset. And they’ve got another ally, too: Bill Gate. Scott Prevost, Powerset’s general manager, was quoted as saying that "Bill has definitely not retired for us". Gates, who has stepped down from day to day operations, has said that he planned to continue to work on search.

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Cuil - The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

mohit — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:12:53 GMT

It is amusing that this point has been lost in all the hype about Cuil.

Quoted: I’ve got a theory: no one can create a better search engine than Google, simply because Google does not only search websites, but - through its domination of the market - the entire web bends to Google’s will because every web site wants to be positioned well on Google. Therefore, any competitor that may arise - however large its index, however good its algorithms - can only hope to be nearly as good as Google.

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Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: Google's second click versus Facebook's second click

mohit — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:57:41 GMT

Is a SERP (search engine result page) API a good idea? I think it could be so long as the corresponding results are easier -- not harder -- to digest than they are now. Google does have co-op, which is a SERP API of sorts, but it is quite limited.

Quoted: If these scenarios were possible, then you might argue that all the smart stuff that Google's doing to improve their SERP (seach engine result page) - like making YouTube video thumbnails, or Google Image Search shortcuts - could be done automatically by the people building the underlying sites and integrating with a SERP API.
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Without this, the SERP is a walled garden platform that gets slow, incremental features based on whatever Google chooses to implement. And that's the furthest thing from open, yet it's also not Googley to let people clutter up the SERP. So we'll see how this tension evolves over time ;-)

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