Search engine are not doing search anymore… No search is for small player, now the real thing is to have an evolved engine. Where Wolframalpha offer a computational knowledge engine, Bing offer a decision engine. So far Google can keep being Google fearless ; )
Bing (also known as Kumo) should be publicly available on June 3rd. At least the name [...]

Wolframalpha the so called computational knowledge engine, is finally available to the public :)
Why and when would you want to switch from Google, Yahoo or Live?
The answer is quite simple: Wolfram will give you an answer while other search engines will gives you a (too huge) set of related pages where you can go if the [...]

Since I started my new job I have been so much involved in discovering new technologies that I quite forgot to post any significant and regular update to this website. Google’s ranking algorithm did not pardon this move: my page rank fall from 7 to 4 !!!
With a page rank of 7 I had [...]

Microsoft in its fight for search market share has finally acquire Powerset (a natural language processing system). The system is really impressive and could be a real value for users. For example if you type in ‘How tall is the Eiffel Tower’ you will have the answer: 300.65 Meters
According to an interview in TechCrunch the [...]

In that time I was a big fan of SEO and thought that it would be cool to place my first name (Ahmet) in top positions of search engines. When I started I couldn’t even find a reference to my website while searching on Google.com (European server) and there are about 44,700,000 results when searching [...]

Must have been the first time I saw one of Google services being down…

http://www.google.com/errors/asfe/system_down.html
Now, who is going to pay for the adds not distributed :) ?
Ahmet

I had the opportunities to ask some questions to John Holland, the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Searchme.
Searchme is a new search engine that uses visual search and category refinement, displayed with the Flash Player.

I came across this news from the Los Angeles Flex Users Group, then I followed to the new O’Reilly website on RIA: “Inside RIA” to finally end up on John Dowdell’s blog.
As it is the first time I disagree with John, and my answer started to be long, I preferred to import it here directly:
IMHO, [...]

I just came accross this video on youTube, Google Maps Mobile (GMM) has added a Location services based on CellID (Cell Of Origine).

Cool, now the question is: is there an API from GMM to get this bluedot position and use it with Flash Lite?
Supported device: most web enabled phones such as Java, BlackBerry, Windows [...]

[Via TechCrunch]

Google is working on a new experience within their search result, offering a way to the users to customize their search (voting for or against a result). Unfortunately this behavior would be only for the users not for all the research neither than for a network of friends / coworkers:
[...]This experiment lets you influence [...]