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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve just read via the AXNA that Adobe, Google and Yahoo! worked together to allow SWF searchability. My first thought was ‘finally they made it’ :)
But while reading the FAQ I’ve been a little disappointed by how this indexation seems to happen:
[...]The Flash Player technology, optimized for search spiders, runs a SWF file similarly [...]

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

Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team has published on his blog his session at Web 2.0 Expo:

You can access all the video from the expo on Blip.tv
It is interesting to note that Google have no problem with SEO and that the politic again (web) spammer is to make them lose time, effort and [...]