Geeking with Greg

Cliff Click gave an interesting Google engEdu talk on an implementation of " A Lock-Free Hash Table " for multiprocessor systems w...

Paul Tyma has a fun and detailed post describing the architecture behind Mailinator, a service that provides temporary e-mail addresses. [F...

An interesting story on TechDirt about how Amazon-owned Alexa took many of the good UI ideas developed by a site called Alexaholic (that wa...

Sixteen months ago, there was an interesting rumor that Google is building data centers that fit inside of shipping containers. Google hire...

Rich Skrenta writes " How to beat Google, part 1 ". Some brief excerpts: Grow a spine people! You have a giant growing market wit...

Thinking more about my last post, " Google and the deep web ", Google appears to me to be rejecting federated search, instead pref...

A few new papers out of Google cover some of their work on indexing the deep web . A Dec 2006 article, "Structured Data Meets the Web: ...

Apollo from Adobe Labs seems worth watching closely. It appears to be an attempt to take widely deployed Flash applications out of the web...

Philipp Lenssen transcribes part of an I-Innovate interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. An interesting excerpt on the competitive advant...

Deepak Thomas and Nisan Gabbay post an excellent and detailed " YouTube Case Study " that analyzes the reasons for the success of ...

Former Microsoft tech evangelist Robert Scoble bluntly says that "Microsoft's Internet execution sucks". Key excerpts: Micros...

Gord Hotchkiss at Search Engine Land writes about " The Pros and Cons of Personalized Search ". Some excerpts: How do engines [dis...

Todd Bishop at the Seattle PI has a good article today, " What next for Microsoft in Web search? ", that summarizes some opinions ...

Miguel Helft at the NYT writes about the Google commuter buses. Some excerpts: [Google] now ferries about 1,200 employees to and from Goog...

In a report on Microsoft Research TechFest 2007 , John Markoff at the New York Times wrote : Microsoft says it still believes that it will e...

In a clip from a 2002 talk, Google co-founder Larry Page had a nice answer for those who wonder if search is nearly a solved problem. After...

Richard MacManus reports that a major revision of My Yahoo is about to start a private beta test. Richard has already seen the beta and say...

Todd Bishop reports in the Seattle PI that Chris Payne, "the Microsoft Corp. executive who led the company's challenge to Google i...

An interesting rumor from Elinor Mills at News.com: Simeon Simeonov of Polaris Venture Partners writes ... that [Google Phone] will be a B...

Gord Hotchkiss at Search Engine Land posted another interview ( partial with comments , full transcript ) on personalized search, this one w...