I’m gonna be at WeMedia the following days and I’m gonna try to make it to London 2.0 RC 5, Wednesday May 3rd. If my brain isn’t too fried after a long conference day. I haven’t been in London since I left in 2002, looking forward to it.
Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 2: On Language and Tagging: “The first is that we are using automated language analysis software (based on languid), and it may have bugs, thus over or undercounting a particular language or group of languages.”
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Mmm. Pages with nothing but ads? I’m not sure. I’m getting the feeling Myspace is losing it. The only thing that can save them is if they continue to watch the numbers of what’s being used more closely than the numbers of what’s generating income. But then, they might continue to go strong for decades to come, who knows. It’s just hard to imagine.
New Microsoft browser raises Google’s hackles - page 2 | CNET News.com
It seems that the little search box in your browser is where a large part of the search wars will be fought. That’s why Mozilla’s income depends on that little box. “Google estimates that the boxes, when available, are the starting point for 30 percent to 50 percent of a user’s searches”. With 80% marketshare, a quick calculation, that means Microsoft, with IE8 and its new searchbox, would get 80% of 80% of 40% is about 20% of the search market handed out to itself when they launch and dissiminate IE7.
Which means that that little box, defaulted to MS Search, must more than pay for IE7’s development. (And I’m not even counting the pain it inflicts on Google with this.)