Facebook's implicit web trumps Google's

Techcrunch has a good article on how Facebook will use its implicit web to trump Google. When will they launch web search? Or would they acquire a player .. Blekko might be a good candidate given its already quite substantial Facebook integration.

Latest entrant: Blekko

Possibly the most exciting entrant to the implicit web is the new search engine Blekko, which uses user-curated slashtags to make search more relevant. Disappointingly my blog wasn't crawled yet, but hopefully my creation of the /implicitweb slashtag is going to change that :-).

Better late than never ..

.. getting back to my blog after a long time I noted the subject is still central to what I do on a daily basis, although I now apply it to eCommerce at Shopping.com rather than Customer Service at Openwater.

I also discovered it ranks #6 for this term on Google, not bad :-). Perhaps not surprising Wikipedia ranks #1, funny I hadn't seen that before.

Awesome analysis of how Amazon controls e-commerce

Here's a great presentation laying out Amazon's strategy to control e-commerce http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/how-amazon-controls-ecommerce-slides/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Vertical Shopping Search as a Service

Here's an interesting news item about google's commerce search, searching in a SaaS model for shopping verticals. This is a serious threat to the Endeca's, Omnitures and FASTs of the world.

More intent -- will Yahoo! catch up with this?

Interesting overview of new features.

The best thing since sliced bread?

Read a seemingly very biased article about Sphinx.

The author seems to resent the Apache Foundation in general and Lucene/Solr and Java in particular, so whatever else he says I will take with a grain of salt. But for people who think that text search as supported by RDBs is the only search you need it might open some eyes ..