Category: Interviews

Multi language dictionary with translations and pronunciation

Dictionarist is a language tool resembling a Swiss army knife: It’s a free online talking dictionary which provide translation in 13 languages. This cool language tool translates to and from English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

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Posted on Wednesday 5 March 2008
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Search engine Nsyght is powered by the wisdom of crowds

Nsyght is a fledgling human powered search engine, still in deployment mode, with the motto “Kick the algorithm to the curb”. Of course, every search engine needs an algorithm to find relevant web pages and rank the search results. So what are they up to at Nsyght? I asked Geoffrey to find out and got an interesting peek into the process of creating a new Web 2.0 service.

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Posted on Wednesday 30 January 2008
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Gary Price on the soul of Ask

he search engine Ask doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. News from the search engine war these days is mostly about Google, sometimes about Yahoo or Live, but all too little about the other great alternatives. I had a talk with Gary Price, director of online Info resources at Ask about the soul of Ask and how this search engine works to improve your access to online information of all kinds.

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Posted on Monday 28 January 2008
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Fanpop, a growing Web 2.0 community

One year ago, we published a couple of posts on Fanpop, a Web 2.0 startup with a focus on sharing and commenting on links. A lot has happened over at Fanpop since then: It’s not all about links anymore, there are videos, articles, polls and more. And while the most obvious perk a year ago was sharing links on your favorite topic, today Fanpop is a community, a social networking site with a warm and safe feel to it.

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Posted on Monday 27 August 2007
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Hakia, a meaning-based search engine

The future of search is understanding information, not merely finding it. This is the claim of Dr. Riza Berkan, CEO of Hakia, a meaning-based or semantic search engine currently in beta. His motivation for plowing the field of ontological semantics is ultimately to compete with the giants of the search engine industry.

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Posted on Monday 20 August 2007
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Daron Babin on online radio, podcasting and search engine marketing

Online radio expert Daron Babin talks about Webmasterradio.fm, Internet radio, podcasting, podcast search engine marketing and two new search engines for audio and video podcast

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Posted on Wednesday 30 May 2007
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SEO expert Kalena Jordan on search engine ranking success

Universal Search will change the way people search as a whole, therefore impacting the existing business models of SEO and SEM firms, SEO expert Kalena Jordan says in this Pandia interview. Learn what’s important and what’s not in search engine marketing.

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Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2007
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SEM expert Jill Whalen on organic search engine optimization, Google and more

Search Engine Marketing Expert Jill Whalen talks to Pandia.

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Posted on Monday 7 May 2007
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