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Yahoo's SearchMonkey, BOSS efforts likely to die on the vine

Yahoo's SearchMonkey, BOSS efforts likely to die on the vineContinue the march toward a more semantic webMy hope is that they incorporate some of the great RDFa integration SearchMonkey has implemented, especially the support for the GoodRelations commerce ontology.

Tags: SearchMonkey, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Yahoo's SearchMonkey, BOSS efforts likely to die on the vine

Microsoft execs say that they may be open to Yahoo search technologies such as SearchMonkey and BOSS Build your Own Search Service. Yahoo acknowledges it has nothing concrete to say about the future of SearchMonkey and BOSS. What's a developer to do? Try walking away. ...

Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., SearchMonkey, BOSS, CNet News, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-30

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News to know: Microsoft; Motorola; BIOS 'rootkit'

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2009: Mary...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Researcher, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Rootkits, Microsoft Windows 7, BIOS, Microsoft Windows, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-31

News to know: Windows 7 RTM review; Microsoft-Yahoo; SAP; Sprint

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Windows 7 first look: More than just "Vista, fixed" Gallery: Windows 7 RTM...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...

Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Yahoo's new BOSS: another tool to milk pennies out of search?

In a sense, Yahoo is going back to basics by tapping the search index itself to be the core of a new business strategy. The company said today that it plans to impose a pricing and usage structure on its Yahoo BOSS Build Your Own Search Service API for developers...

Tags: Developer, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., API, Unit, Pricing Strategy, Tool, Bartz, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Semantic Web Gang looks back at 2008; favours both infrastructure and lightweight apps

Looking back over 2008, the Semantic Web Gang found much to discuss in their last podcast of the year. A year that began with a $42million investment in Metaweb continued with Yahoo!'s support for semantic technologies, Microsoft's purchase of Powerset, and the release of much-hyped Twine. We...

Tags: Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-08

With Glue, AdaptiveBlue frees us from the tyranny of the site

Glue from AdaptiveBlue has been out since late last month, and various sites have provided reviews of this useful little tool. See, for example, Dan Farber, Chris Morrison, Sarah Perez, and Jennifer Zaino. I am not going to write another review. I would, however, recommend that you...

Tags: Network, Site, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Dapper incentivises structuring of web data with MashupAds

Amit Kumar, the 'father of SearchMonkey' when he was Director for Product Management at Yahoo! Search, is now VP for Product Management at Dapper and clearly he is still finding the carrots with which to entice content owners to semantically structure their data. Dapper announced MashupAds today,...

Tags: Web, Data, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-10

News to know: Ballmer on Windows 7; T-Mobile G1; Google's 3Q

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive' Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista... Ballmer: 'Windows...

Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile G1, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, T-Mobile, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Outsourcing, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Yahoo! gets local with SearchMonkey

Continuing to deliver on their aim of enriching the core search offering with a little help from SearchMonkey, Yahoo! yesterday announced that the existing SearchMonkey apps for CitySearch and Zagat are now available by default to all users of Yahoo! Search. Launched back...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Productivity, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-17

New report places Semantic Web 'On the Cusp' of something big

Today sees the publication of a new report by Boston-based David Provost. On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry PDF features David's analysis of the space, informed by detailed conversations with representatives from many of its leading companies, and the picture he paints is an optimistic...

Tags: David Provost, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Semantic Technology's place in the enterprise; key, but low-key ?

Last week saw over 200 researchers, advocates, implementors and practitioners of Semantic Technology descend upon the delightful Austrian capital for the second European Semantic Technology Conference ESTC. Smaller than the more established Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose and nestling uncomfortably close both spatially and temporally to...

Tags: European Commission, Verizon Communications Inc., Technology, Conference, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Powerset is making Microsoft Live Search better...

OK, I admit it. I doubted. But Powerset is already bringing value to Microsoft Live Search results. Frederic Lardinois over on Read/WriteWeb picks up on a post to the Powerset blog, and takes a look at some of the current Powerset-powered enhancements to the...

Tags: Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Blogging, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Simple semantic mashups from InfoSpace show possibilities

Kris Bradley over at InfoSpace got in touch recently, to show me some of the work they've done to pull content from Semantic Web resources in order to enrich results displayed at webcrawler.com. According to Kris, the team are pulling information from sources such as DBpedia and...

Tags: Result, Search Engine, InfoSpace Inc., Mashup, Search, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft

The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...

Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-22

News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google’s second quarter: What to expect   Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Challenge illustrates diversity

Back in May Yahoo! opened up their SearchMonkey platform, and kicked off a competition in which developers could put SearchMonkey through its paces. The whole Yahoo! open platform initiative continues to grow apace and largely unchallenged by Google and Microsoft, with BOSS rolling out earlier this month,...

Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., StumbleUpon, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Yahoo's desperate search times call for open source

Yahoo has opened its search for developers to customize in its latest step in what it calls its Open Strategy, a plan to make Yahoo a platform. The effort is dubbed Yahoo Search BOSS, which allows "allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., BOSS, RealNetwork, Open Source, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain

Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it’s still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn’t have the best operating system on the planet....

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-01