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January 17, 2003

More on Inktomi's WebSearch 9. That man Sullivan puts the new offering under the microscope.

Yahoo reports strong revenue and earnings. "The Web portal reported a fourth-quarter net profit of $46.2 million, or 8 cents a share, on sales of $285.8 million for the period ending Dec. 31, 2002. That compares with a net loss of $8.7 million, or 2 cents a share, and revenue of $188.9 million during the same period in 2001". Will search engines kick start the NASDAQ this year?

Finally, a cigarette lighter for your PC.

January 16, 2003

Christina Buu-Hoan's site provides intelligent commentary on the search engine marketing world. In this article, Christina looks at the power of Google.

Kartoo to release a site search beta.

Party like it's 1995. Slate looks at the state of the internet 2003.The Search Engine wars come full circle.

More on web standards. Zeldman weighs in and suggests, as we did yesterday, that the W3C should "shuck off its modest, academic shell and begin selling the community on the benefits of and thinking behind the spec it is now calling XHTML 2".

Isn't Bowling for Columbine a fantastic movie.

And finally, Google question.

January 15, 2003

Google's gaggle of problems. An interesting article describing the challenges Google faces in 2003. This is the point where the nice tech idea comes face to face with ruthless market forces. Forget PageRank. Start thinking supply and demand.

Semantic obsolescence. The W3C and web standards get a firm kicking. It's time for the W3C to come down from the ivory tower and put a marketing hat on.

Finally, content is crap.

January 14, 2003

Teoma has rolled out a new beta advanced search.

Inktomi's spider has been out on a major crawl (Thanks Brett)

Overture sees fourth-quarter results ahead of forecast.

And finally, Belly pictures from Brussels.

January 13, 2003

Turns crank.

Nothing.

Turns crank again.

Splutter. Whir. Various engine related noises. The blog springs into life. Hello 2003! Hope you all had a great holiday. I drank too much, ate too much and lay about too much. Which was grand. But now, back to work.

I see that absolutely nothing has happened in the search engine world in my absence, except:

Yahoo buys Inktomi
Google responds to SearchKing. SK attempts to charge people $20 in order to see the court documents!
Pandia gave this site an award. "Highly recommended", which was nice.
A Google IPO is "strongly suggested" for 1Q 2003.
Maurice Gibb dies. Ok, not strictly search engine related, but a Tragedy for any remaining Bee Gees fans.

Whatever next? Well, that's what we aim to find out. It seems that every jumped up hack at this point starts making a list of predictions. Quite frankly, we think that's a bit naff, but we're going to make one anyway. Here's our top ten predictions regarding events that simply WILL NOT HAPPEN in 2003:

Google will please everybody, all of the time.
Someone called Jill will start a cloaking forum, and recommend that everyone "spam the hell outta search engines".
There will not be a major IPO by a major search engine. Instead, they will start a hippie commune and just "be good, man".
SearchEngineBlog will fail to get one e-mail regarding secret Nigerian bank accounts
That man Sullivan will give up search engine stuff, and start worshipping Mike Grehan full-time.
Someone's penis will actually "permanently increase by between 2 and four inches" as a direct result of a spam e-mail.
No search commentator, anywhere, will make any picks regarding what 2003 has in store.

OK, so that wasn't quite ten predictions, but we got bored. Anyway, roll on 2003. It should be a damn interesting year, search-wise.