For some reason, my request for a face-to-face interview with Larry Page and Sergey Brin was unsuccessful. Apparently, I needed to ask in 1996 to get an appointment any time soon. Nonetheless, the Google people were keen to answer my questions about the business. On the less positive side, I had to do the whole thing by
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports the sad news that the internet has grown up: Sex and pornography have been trounced by business and e-commerce as the most popular internet search topics, new research shows. In their mid-90s heyday, sex-related topics accounted for 17 per cent of web searches, but that figure has shrunk to an Heather Hopkins from Hitwise UK reports an interesting phenomena on Google’s book search. The company may have started to offer PDF versions of out-of-print books, a very encouraging move to be sure. But a significant proportion of users go from directly from book search to book shops. Heather reports: “Last week, 15.93% of Stephen Taylor is the RVP and MD Search & Search Marketing at Yahoo! UK. Before Yahoo!, he was the MD of Overture Europe. I, on the other hand, am a little-known hack from South West London with a penchant for strong lager and pizzas. Stephen may also like those things. How are the new changes to Marc Fawzi at Evolving Trends attacks the whole notion of the wisdom of crowds. It’s a development of the disappointing experience he had when digg suddenly made him the number one site on WordPress for a short period, apparently on the basis that he had come up with a catchy headline. Marc’s issue with digg’s ability Anxious about the success of your blog? With my one regular reader (me), perhaps I ought to be. But it seems one secret of blog success is to wait around for a bit and soon your day will come. Tristan Louis has analysed the top 100 blogs listed at Technorati against the same list nine months earlier. |             | |||
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