Search giants, law makers looking for some privacy
The search engines are again under the legislative spotlight. Their powers of data retention are being eroded further. But there’s a deeper problem — take away personal data and the future of web applications is imperiled…
Customized search with Yahoo! Search Gallery
In a style similar to Google’s Sitelinks, Yahoo! Search Gallery offers customized search results. The difference is, Yahoo! are letting you create your very own search results from the websites you like most…
Business websites: SEO versus Social Media, Part 3
Social Media does not and cannot benefit businesses in the same way that SEO can. I can’t stress this enough, because the evidence is all around me. And being both logical and objective, I have to follow the facts as they are and not how I’d like them to be…
In the 1st and 2nd installments, [...]
Semantic Web as the "killer app", Part 2
If the current iteration of the web is about Social Media, Social Networking and the ownership of our data, then the next iteration of the web will stand for the personalization of our data. But our data won’t just be personalized, this data will be smart enough to know when to go beyond mere data [...]
Semantic Web as the "killer app", Part 1
In it’s present form, the web is a loose collection of data islands we call websites. In a future world wide Semantic Web, would there be a need to search for anything? Maybe those things that we need would be so neatly packaged and so clearly labeled, they would find us instead…
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