Movie search engine Jinni on Nanocrowd by CharlesKnight, The Next Web (Mar 19) Two new movie search engines, Jinni and Nanocrowd - both terrific - CharlesKnight asks them to compare themselves to the other. This is Part 1...
The AltSearchEngines site on alternative search engines will no longer be updated. The editor, CharlesKnight, managed to cover some 4000 search engines in its three year long life.
The Best Discovery Engine of the Year Surf Canyon, CharlesKnight, The Next Web (Mar 4) Surf Canyon won the About.com Web Search Reader's Choice Award Winners for 2010 as "best search engine". SurfCanyon is a browser add-on -...
They've got answers, you've got questions., CharlesKnight, The Next Web (Feb There are several services on the Web where - "You ask a human a question and a) a human answers you, or b) their machine answers you." No...
Personal Cognitive Utility Zahdoo with augmented socio-cognition. Marketing gone amok., The Next Web (Feb 24) CharlesKnight writes - "Zahdoo, a personal cognitive utility (PCU) with augmented socio-cognition, belongs to a new class of semantic applications that enhance user's content...
CharlesKnight, who is now the Search Editor at Nextweb pointed me to a Bloomberg report at BusinessWeek, Google, Yahoo Sued by Xerox Over Search Query Patents. The patent infringement complaint contains claims that specifically name the following programs as infringing Xerox’s patented technology: Google’s Adsense and Adwords programs, Google Maps, Google Video, and [...]...
Where to go to find what's hot on the Web, The Next Web (Feb 17) 1) Why be interested in real-time at all? CharlesKnight points to Why Right Now is a Big Thing: 5 Users Who Care About Real...
Google's Super Bowl ad good, parodies even better., CharlesKnight, The Next Web (Feb 160 Everyone knows about the ad Google used during the SuperBowl. Here it is again along with three parodies....
Google, thy days are numbered., CharlesKnight, The Next Web (Feb 13) The idea of having agents doing your search work has been around for a long time - and search agents do exist. This is something a bit different...
Bing's real advantage Spatial Search, The Next Web (Feb 12) Bing is doing fascinating work with maps and street views. CharlesKnight has posted this must-see video on Bing Maps showing Bing's use of geolocated images in Flickr. They...
... The report no longer lays out just how many conflicts the military should be called on to fight. CharlesKnight, co-director of the Commonwealth Institute's Project on Defence Alternatives, sees this as problematic. "They had never in the past defined what they meant [by a two-war strategy] but at least it had the number two in it... now you can go on forever dreaming up possible...
... The report no longer lays out just how many conflicts the military should be called on to fight. CharlesKnight, co-director of the Commonwealth Institute's Project on Defence Alternatives, sees this as problematic. "They had never in the past defined what they meant [by a two-war strategy] but at least it had the number two in it... now you can go on forever dreaming up possible...
... his house at Abbotsford. Images: Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott’s home. History of England , CharlesKnight, (London, c.1868.) The Scottish Regalia. Scott was instrumental in recovering the long-lost Scottish regalia. He got permission from the Prince Regent (later George IV) to search in Edinburgh Castle for the lost treasure in 1818. Black’s Picturesque Tourist of Scotland...