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The Future of Search: Part Two
In my previous post dated Dec 22nd, I described the discovery engines as the future of web search. Another new important development has just been announced by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia (user edited online encyclopedia). Mr. Wales revealed his intentions to build “wiki” based […]

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Can you spot trends just by learning what people search? Yes, according to Google. Google processes all searches on its search engines worldwide and produces a report called “The Zeitgeist: general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era”:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2006.html
Here are four of the top ten most popular search terms that got […]

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It all started with Amazon and its now famous recommendation engine: “Customers who bought items in your shopping cart also bought…”. It was so intelligent marketing strategy. But most importantly, customers loved it!
Many other web sites have followed, for example:

www.pandora.com: customized online radio station (“your personal DJ”) helps you discover music songs and artists […]

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Advertising just changed thanks to the broadband Internet, particularly YouTube.com and similar video file sharing web sites. In addition to classic 30 seconds video (TV) commercials, advertising agencies are now creating new type of commercials for their clients. Here is how these commercials are different:

They are created specially for web audience, and uploaded on free […]

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