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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

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Wolfram Alpha opens API to developers

What a lot of guffThis guff gets a news story all on its own, yet you cant even manage a follow up story about Microsoft recovering the Sidekick Data.What has happened to ZDNET? Is it stuck in recession mode with a team of highly untrained monkeys writing low rate news...

Tags: news story, Wolfram Alpha, API

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Google Caffeine and the perception game

Google is asking for your help checking out its tweaks to its search engine---not that you'll notice much difference. These Google search changes would usually happen behind the scenes without much fanfare. So what's this about? Perception. In a blog post, Google wrote: For the last...

Tags: Game, Google Inc., Search Engine, Search, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith

Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or...

Tags: Knowledge, Wolfram Research, Ontology, Nova Spivack, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Google missed a marketing turn with the 'decision engine' thing

Does Google have Bing envy? Is the search giant running scared over Microsoft's search marketing blitz? The New York Post seems to think so. In a report the Post blares: You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. But...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Sergey Brin, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-14

News to know: Office 2010 leak; Windows Mobile; Wolfram/Alpha; SOA; Zappos; ;

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. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Mobile Dev team: 'Windows Mobile 6.5 is done' New Microsoft Office 2010 test build leaks Zack Whittaker: Screenshots:...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Dana Blankenhorn, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Mobile Applications, Microsoft Office, Wireless And Mobility, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Office Suites

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?

Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?Not Even CloseIt is very lacking in knowing dates of history. Take for example that it doesn't know that May 6th, 1937 is the day the Hindenburg crashed at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. That is a major day in history and any Google search...

Tags: Wiki, PRODUCTIVITY, SEARCH, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia-killer

Discussion threads 2009-05-17

Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?

Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?Agreed. Tried it out.It can answer "some" questions faster then Google but still suffers the problem of you want to do further research even then to be assured Wolfram got it right. As I suspected, its much like Wikipedia; just a smaller...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine, Wolfram/Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?

Wolfram/Alpha has launched, but after a few searches it's an open question whether the search engine can break out of a narrow niche for select users. For many searches Wolfram/Alpha just "isn't sure what to do with your input." Wolfram/Alpha got rolling over the weekend in preparation for a...

Tags: Stock, Wolfram/Alpha, Taxes, Team Management, Investment, Free Trade, Search, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-16

Wolfram/Alpha details engine's computing power

The folks working behind the scenes on the infrastructure of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine offered some details on the computing power for a new search engine that's been referred to as a Google killer. In the post, the team noted that once Wolfram/Alpha launches, it will be...

Tags: Supercomputer, Computing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-12

More details emerge on Wolfram Alpha

Set to launch this month, Wolfram Alpha promises to be the next big thing from the same guy who transformed mathematical software. Ahead of its launch, though, we're seeing some details emerge that may position it as more of a Google Supplement than a Google killer. In fact, the...

Tags: Google Inc., Productivity, Search, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-10

Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web'

Another week another Google killer. Last week, it was Twitter as Google killer. This week it's Wolfam Alpha. The difference with Wolfram Alpha is that it has the pedigree, engineering heft and perhaps a better mousetrap to actually live up to the billing. Techmeme is a flutter...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Knowledge, Computer, Dan, Nova Spivak, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-08