I’ll file this one under, “Really exciting news”. I just wanted to take a moment to thank Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb for the opportunity to guest blog. I recently wrote a piece on Search Agents that he as been kind enough to pick up. Richard has always been good to this blog, and this is just one more instance of that support.

Teaser

The idea of “Search” is a powerful concept. Whether it’s guide based like Mahalo, algorithmically powered like Google or driven by something as close to home as natural language, like Powerset. Where there is information, there is a need to be able to easily sift through it.

So far, we have focused our attention on brute force solutions to the problem of search. If an engine produces bad results, well then develop a better engine. However another path that might provide a solution to this problem is a search engine that can do our work for us – a search agent. Web services that can learn from our choices, to make future searches more accurate.

Web 2.0 Roundup

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