Category: Social media

Accenture, Fast Search and Transfer and Microsoft establish a think tank for search engine technology development in Oslo.

123People is a brand new people search engine that is set to launch this week. It finds and identifies information from hundreds of publicly available sources on the web in real-time to produce up-to-date results including from social network profiles, weblinks, email address, images and videos. It is a good idea to gather people information across services like this — a metasearch engine for people information from the Social Web, if you will. But this is a competitive niche. Has 123People got what it takes?

The Social Web is changing web search and the search engine business. This change poses challenges and brings opportunities. Here are some current trends that will change the shape of search in the yeas to come.

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.

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.

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?

Del.izzy is a search engine that supplements the search options available at Delicious. I use Delicius every day and for a lot of bookmarks and I am always looking out for ways to extract useful information from my treasure trove of bookmarks.

Del.icio.us is a great service, but their search options leave something to be desired. When you search through youe bookmarks, you are only searching through tags, titles and descriptions, not the page content.

I use every opportunity I get to talk about all the data available at bookmarking sites like Delicious and I often wonder why more search tools don’t utilize this wealth of information. InSuggest is a Swedish company specializing in personalized web recommendations. This summer they launched a service based on Delicious.