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Technology, Culture, Commentary on the Internet Revolution

July 2nd, 2008

Google Wants to “See” the Web’s Trillion Images

Google currently indexes images primarily through text metadata. As anyone who’s used Google to search for porn pics knows, that technique doesn’t necessarily produce the best possible results. For the longest time, in fact, Google image search said I was a nightmare.
Tags: Google, R.J. Pittman, SearchShare This

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

May 23rd, 2008

Microsoft Gives Up on Technology

Few things are sadder than a technology company giving up on technology. That’s exactly what Microsoft’s been doing.
They’re paying an ad agency $300 million to rebrand themselves as “cool”. I have a better idea: how about they spend that money to build products that are actually cool? In a world where one guy can build […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

May 7th, 2008

AdSense for Search Now Uses CSE

Niniane Wang, Maile Ohye, Aileen Apolo, Jessica Lee, and now Arlene Lee — Google seems to have no shortage of attractive Asian female engineers. Arlene and Matt Wytock explain the integration of Google’s Custom Search Engine (CSE) and AdSense for Search.
Tags: AdSense, Advertising, Arlene Lee, CSE, Google, Matt Wytock, SearchShare This

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

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