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Google recently released its Insights product, which Andrew Chen describes as an insanely useful product. If you are a trendfollower or coolhunter then this is absolutely true.
Be warned though, as with many things in life, you get out what you put in - read Eric Schonfeld’s take on inputting “twitter” rather than “twitter.com” for a true representation of the microblogging tool’s US coverage.
Tags: Andrew Chen, Eric Schonfeld, Insights, TwitterThe following video sourced from TechCrunch outlines a possible next iteration of Google Search. It’s very interesting to note the inclusion of Digg-like vote up/down features as well as on-search comments and profiling a la Friendfeed.
Should Google go ahead and implement this new feature set it will make search an order of magnitude more social.
Tags: Digg, Friendfeed, Google, TechCrunchPARC spinout Powerset has released its public beta: a search facility across Wikipedia.
I like the way their search solution collates data from a range of sources within Wikipedia. I like the way this data is presented. However, I’m disappointed that they are only searching across Wikipedia. After all the hype and the build up, I would’ve thought Powerset could’ve been more ambitious and gone for a wider beta sample.
Watch the demo video, but be warned … it may leave you feeling underwhelmed:
Powerset Demo Video from officialpowerset on Vimeo.
Semantic search engine hakia has added credibility-stamping to its health related search results.
Forrester research has determined that as many as 30% of searchers question the quality of the information they receive via a search engine. With that in mind, this move by hakia is a welcome one in an area where popularity pales in comparison to getting results right.
Results will be provided from sources that meet the quality criteria set by the Medical Library Association.
