Geeking with Greg

Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft will launch a new weblog service this week called MSN Spaces. MSN Spaces is "a direct compet...

Rageboy apparently saw Amazon.com doing an A/B test of citation links between books. It seems to be gone now, but Rageboy's post inclu...

We at Findory have been thrilled by the reaction we've gotten from the blogging community to our site. I wanted to highlight some of t...

Bruce Schneier responds to some of the hype ( [1] [2] [3] ) over so-called security flaws in Google Desktop Search: Google's desktop ...

Less than two weeks ago, Findory launched personalized web search. Today, Findory launched personalized news and blog search. Want...

Steve Outing talks about the launch of Newsbreak , an Australian news aggregator from Fairfax Digital. The aggregator itself seems indisti...

Stefanie Olsen at CNet reports on Google, Yahoo, and MSN's efforts on search for video streams. One particularly interesting excer...

Chris DiBona digs up an interesting old article by Mimi Sheraton that criticizes Zagat's user reviews: The Zagat surveys stand or fall...

Got a suggestion for Findory ? We've love to hear from you. Most e-mails to Findory are either suggestions or oh-my-god-this-is-so-g...

Gary Stein (analyst at Jupiter Research) posts that Mamma , a metasearch engine based in Canada, just purchased Copernic , one of the leadi...

Tara Calishain bemoans how Yahoo has deemphasized its web directory. Yahoo's latest redesign relegates their web directory to a corne...

Adam Penenberg at Wired says, " Newspapers Should Really Worry ": [Young] focus-group participants declared they wouldn't acce...

Google launches wish lists in Froogle . Google is getting better and better for online shopping. How do you feel about that, Amazon?

Jefferson Graham at USA Today writes about Ask Jeeves. Some excerpts: The company's signature cartoon butler, known as Jeeves, was a s...

Brian Dennis points to an interesting paper by Brian Whitman and Steve Lawrence, "Inferring Descriptions and Similarity for Music fro...

Findory launched another new feature this weekend, pages for every news site and blogger in our database. Alex Edelman has a good write-up...

Raul Valdes-Perez (CEO of Vivisimo) has a CNet article attacking personalized web search and touting the virtues of document clustering. ...

Robin Sloan produced a clever Flash movie called " EPIC 2004 " speculating about the future of personalized news and information...

A couple weeks ago, Findory launched search history for web, news, and blog search. As I've said before , search history is not person...

The Google Kirkland open house party was last night. It was a great time. Quite a turnout, totally packed. Strong UW presence, which wasn...