Category: Interviews

Q-Sensei is an enterprise search solution launched this April. In a conversation with CEO Ute Rother I learned — among other things — about the company’s indexing and real time data mining technologies.

How do you engage the visitors on your site? How do you work to develop new interactivity? A lot of insight can be gleaned from the experiences of the people who are out there getting their feet wet, building online communities from scratch. Here is an interview with Marina Cianfarani, owner of qmpeople, a social [...]

It may take as long as 6 to 8 months to get results from search engine optimization, i.e from methods where you rewrite and redesign your site so that the search engines find relevant content more easily and rank your pages higher. That’s a long time in a shifting market. The solution, according to search engine optimization specialist Millind Mody, is to use Web 2.0 or Social Media Optimization techniques to get some quick traffic. In this interview he tells you how. Read on to learn which social media sites to use, how to handle negative feedback, how to set up a company blog and much more.

Nsyght is a web application for Twitter and Facebook that lets you search information from your friends in real time, post directly to your networks as well as search and filter your own “personal fire hose”. If, like me, you belong to a large number of social networks and sometimes struggle to keep up with all the info, Nsyght collects, organizes, filters and searches information from Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Vimeo, Stumbleupon, Flickr, Last.fm, and Delicious. It is not meant to replace social networks, but to enhance them.

Yauba is an brand new yet fully fledged semantic search engine with their own index and a claim to offer truly anonymous search with three levels of privacy. It has an uncluttered user interface which is easy to use yet holds a number of advanced search options. We have asked Yauba founder A. Ahmed Hossain about this and about other aspects of this new combatant on the search engine arena.

Duck Duck Go is a new search engine with a focus on user experience. It “outgoogles” Google when it comes to simplisity and ease of use. I am particularily impressed with the search results page. Navigation is intuitive and yet it holds a lot of useful tools and information.

I have talked to Gabriel Weinberg who is Founder and CEO of Duck Duck Go. In the interview he talks about what makes Duck Duck Go different from other searche engines, what he has done to eliminate spam from the search results, how the search result pages optimized for ease of use and what his business plan is.

SnappyFingers calls itself a comprehensive question/answer explorer. What this means is they index millions of FAQs spread across the web to give you a one-stop-shop for when you turn to the Web to have your questions answered. We have interviewed the founder of SnappyFingers, Chirayu Patel to learn more about how SnappyFingers works and to get a glimpse behind the scenes of an answer search service in the making.

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.