Friends of the blog suggest a couple items of interest. 1. First, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, writer of the ever popular Health Populi blog, has just published a report called The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media. The report addresses issues around the new social networking sites that focus on health issues, but also [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Search engine'
Healthcare Transparency In The News
May 4th, 2008 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets
Tags:health care services·healthcare·Jane Sarasohn-Kahn·Mona Lori·Online Social Media·OutofPocket.com·Search engine·social media·social networking sites·social networks·technology startup
Amazon, the Networker
March 14th, 2008 · Comments Off · Product Markets
Recent news that Amazon is creating two aps for Facebook (from TC here, and FT here) may seem a bit strange — after all, wouldn’t Amazon want more traffic and activity on their site — but a moments reflection should help explain. Amazon is probably not only the world’s large search engine (er, product search [...]
Tags:large internet retailer·large search engine·product search engine·Search engine·social networking sites·social-networking site
Searching for Good, Cheap Wine (Again)
February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Wine Markets
In the never ending quest for good, cheap wine, we have some new entrants into the field (hat tip to AltSearchEngine) that seem to be promising. We’ve already talked about Snooth and how they seem to be headed in the right direction, but ablegrape and Vinquire have some potent offerings. Vinquire tries to bridge the [...]
Tags:Google·Italy·online knowledge·Search engine·search results using keywords·typical search engines·Yahoo
Leveraging Creative Destruction
February 20th, 2008 · Comments Off · Product Development
An article in the FT (Founders take aim at a bigger target) talks about the new “shotgun” approach of entrepreneurs. Instead of relying on one BIG idea they try lots of little ones. From the article: “In consumer internet, it doesn’t make sense to stick a stake in the ground and say, ‘I’m doing this [...]
Tags:consumer internet·David King·genetic algorithms·Google·internet projects·internet successes·Search engine
Successful Financial Innovation (Or, A Lesson in Disruption)
February 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Prediction Markets
There is some concern that financial innovation is getting a bad name due to our current crisis. CDO in particular is a dirty acronym in some parts of the world. But it is worth remembering that they were, for a while anyway, considered successful and innovative financial products. Much of their success was due to [...]
Tags:Bloomberg·Financial products·Jason Ruspini·Robert Shiller·Search engine·search engine futures
Lazy Blogger Blog Post: Friday
February 8th, 2008 · Comments Off · Lazy Blogger Blog Post
Have I mentioned that great little search engine known as Amazon yet? From the Thank-God-Science-Has-Proved-What-We-Knew-All-Along department: Trading is addicting (hat tip to gong) Social networking. Tired of it yet? ~alex
eBay Will Tinker With Their Search Engine
January 25th, 2008 · Comments Off · Auction Markets
eBay’s CEO handover is in the news. From today’s FT story about it, this interesting quote: Over the next few weeks, he said, Ebay would announce a series of changes to its fee structure and to the way its search engine sifts through its millions of listings and chooses which to present most prominently. He [...]
Paging Dr. Bordeaux
January 9th, 2008 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets, Information Design, Market Definitions, Wine Markets
It may be an often overlooked (if unremarkable) fact that search engines must conform to the properties of the thing that is being searched for. Searching for a web page is different from searching for an airline flight, is different from searching for a book, is different from searching for a bottle of wine. The [...]
Tags:airline·airline flight·Bordeaux·doctor search·goods search·Paging·people designing search engines·Search engine·Search goods·USD
Search Engines Dominate Searching? I Don’t Buy It
January 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Other Markets
It is often said that the search engines Google, Microsoft, Ask, and Yahoo dominate almost 99% of all online searches. There is no doubt that these giants do dominate searching for web pages, but how many people search for just web pages these days? Let me give you a simple example. You don’t use Google [...]
Tags:airline tickets·Google·Microsoft·online searches·Page Rank algorithm·Search engine·search engines·search industry·Yahoo
Go Go Donahoe
December 18th, 2007 · Comments Off · Auction Markets, Usability
This morning’s FT offers up this wonderful little story about eBay: Ebay’s rising star plots revamp of ‘flea market’. In it we discover that Mr. Donahoe (the rising star in the title) has been giving some tough love to eBay, and will continue to do so. As he’s quoted in the article: A year ago, [...]
Tags:Donahoe·e - commerce·eBay·fraudulent and inefficient sellers·Search engine
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