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Did Google really trump Amazon?

O'Reilly Radar has the O'Reilly verdict on O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference "Diamond Sponsor" Google!SURPRISE? Google Maps "Street View" is AWESOME, and the O'Reilly inside verdict is spreading like wildfire across the blogosphere:This morning Google gave their 2D maps an incredible realworld addition. Its a street-view, that in certain cities, will let you...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-29

PC Forum: Where in the world is search heading?

The final PC Forum panel had major search vendors and scientists sharing their views on search. The panel included Marissa Mayer, director of consumer product at Google (search, news, images, Froogle, local); Udi Manber, former Yahoo chief scientist and president of Amazon's A9...

Tags: Marissa Mayer, Udi Manber

Blog posts 2005-03-23

Additional Resources

How will Google monetize the "meaning" of a search?

I went to Google's Searchology event Tuesday morning, which is where it unveils it's latest search technologies. This year, there was a lot said about trying to understand the meaning of user queries, which is a semantic analysis. Udi Manber, vice president of core search, said it...

Tags: Google Inc., Keyword, Search, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Google: Understanding is the next frontier of search; Meet Wonder Wheel, Google Squared

Google executives argued that "understanding people, health, communication, education and knowledge" is the next frontier of search. At its annual Searchology powwow Tuesday, a series of executives led by Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, unveiled Google's latest efforts in search refinement, including...

Tags: Google Inc., Marissa Mayer, Productivity, Search, Internet, Mobile Applications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Google to launch new stuff Tuesday

Google announced today that they will be holding a press event called "Searchology" Tuesday. This marks the one-year anniversary of the last event, in which they lauched universal search. If you are looking to watch the event as it unfolds, you can check out the webcast...

Tags: Google Inc., Event, VP, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Chess master Kasparov takes on tech execs...and Putin

At the Disruptions 2005 technology conference put on by Deloitte in San Francisco today, world renowned chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov gave a brief speech and then simultaneously played against about 20 of the executives attending the conference. I talked to Udi Manber, CEO of Amazon’s A9 search engine, who proudly...

Tags: Garry Kasparov

Blog posts 2005-09-16

A word from Rob Pike

The world of text processing in the sense of search and interpretation is very broadly split into two camps: people who want to structure the document database according to content prior to searching, and those who want to impose that structure as part of each search. Yahoo, for example, seeks...

Tags: classification, file system, tool

Blog posts 2005-07-08

Where 2.0 gives direction to new world of mapping

O'Reilly’s first Where 2.0 conference kicked off this morning in San Francisco with a preview of the latest in location-aware and mapping technologies along with the players who are using them to usher in a new class of Web applications and services. Conference co-chair Nathan Torkington got things rolling with...

Tags: local search, Nathan Torkington

Blog posts 2005-06-29

PC Forum here we come...

Starting Monday, David and I will be posting from Esther Dyson's PC Forum conference in hopefully sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. Stay tuned for our coverage, including some podcasts and live action photos. The "PC" in PC Forum was about the personal computer when the conference started 28 years ago. Now "PC"...

Tags: PC Forum

Blog posts 2005-03-18