Who is feeling creative today?
I need a name for a new site. The name needs to be available on .com, .net, and .org and not trademarked or in common use.
The site is going to host a blog, a wiki, and a mailing list for search technology information.
I’ve been incredibly frustrated by the lack of [...]
Three days later and I have made only a small amount of progress writing a prototype for the little machine.
The first setback was a minor power blackout in my neighborhood. It was not even remotely as fun as the three-day blackout we had a few years ago in NYC. But it [...]
I’m briefly surfacing from my first vacation in, well, ever, to quickly comment on what Niall IM’ed me about last night. As far as I know, Niall had the scoop on Google’s new data API called GData.
The Google Data APIs are an attempt to consolidate and generalize Google’s approach to read/write web services. [...]
[Cross-posted on the A9 Developer Blog.]
Dr. Robert Sanderson, senior editor and co-creator of the SRU search standard that is widely used throughout the library and information science communities, was kind enough to drop by the A9.com offices in Palo Alto, CA. In fact, he did more than casually stop in — Rob visited all [...]
Russell Beattie (nice redesign, btw!) writes about Yahoo! and Persistent Search. He was inspired by Bill Burnham’s ideas about ongoing searches. To use Bill’s definition, “Persistent Search allows users to enter a search query just once and then receive constant, near real-time, automatic updates whenever new content that meets their search criteria is [...]
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