AOL has opted for Google’s high quality. Google gets access to AOL’s high quantity. That sums up yesterday’s blockbuster announcement by the two companies: Google has been chosen to power AOL Search as well as to provide...
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Google Answers is a new question-answering service which allows users to get their questions answered for a fee by qualified researchers overseen by Google editorial staff. As with most of Google’s products, it has added clever...
In 1998, usability guru Jakob Nielsen wrote a refreshingly straightforward column on “Why Yahoo Is Good“. His reasoning was that Yahoo’s original model – an easy-to-navigate directory of useful links – had maintained its integrity even as Yahoo grew beyond...
“When you control the mail, you control…. INFORMATION!” – Newman, vague 20th-century poet Tireless business journalist Dana Blankenhorn recently profiled Wz.com, an “About.com-like” site, a collection of expert guides (in this case, called “realms”) at Wz.com....
Microsoft may have thrown the first punch, but Yahoo has landed a knockout blow. Yahoo has responded to the recent overhaul of MSN’s Hotmail with an e-mail upgrade of its own. The new version of Yahoo Mail,...
Microsoft may have thrown the first punch, but Yahoo has landed a knockout blow. Yahoo has responded to the recent overhaul of MSN’s Hotmail with an e-mail upgrade of its own. The new version of Yahoo Mail,...
Latest-generation knowledge management solutions for the enterprise have been gaining traction of late, led by high-profile players such as Autonomy. Given that many of the well-known solutions for organizing information in corporate intranets promise near-total automation of the...
I once attended a live performance of Long Day’s Journey Into Night. It was a marvelous show. But some audience members, conditioned by years of TV sitcoms, felt compelled to laugh at particularly well-acted bits of despair, assuming...