Monday, September 13, 2004

eWeek: IBM scales the vertical industry. An article about the industry focus across IBM Software Group. One example of how it has paid off:The city of Windsor, Ontario, used IBM's Cityscape Portal Solution-City Edition to build a communi... [Ed Brill] 8:54:26 PM    comment []

ZDNet Australia: Microsoft glitches stall online grocery start-up. Ouch- 2Cherries director, Gideon Jacobs, today said that problems with Microsoft's Exchange Server software crippled the company's Brisbane office on the eve of its first day of deliveries. "Micr... [Ed Brill] 8:54:16 PM    comment []

Niche Ad Network: Pointing the Way?. ThomasB2B.com, a niche publisher, is launching an online advertising network that is focused only on the B2B marketplace and uses categories and content, rather than keywords, to drive adjacencies. Others have taken the category route - Industry Brains, Kanoodle - but this is the first time it's been verticalized, that I am aware of. Should be interesting to watch. Story is here, in Infoworld, though I just broke IDG's lame linking policy by pointing you to it. (Incidentially, I'm told, by sources that are reliable, that IDG is reviewing the policy and has determined that it will force registration from offending linkers, as opposed to threatening lawsuits. That's progress...) Update: This is fun: a writer at eWeek, which competes with IDG, sent me a mail... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 8:54:01 PM    comment []

Search Engines 201. Want to dive deep -- really deep -- into the technical literature about search engines? Here's a road map to some of the best web information retrieval resources available online. [www.searchenginewatch.com] 8:53:54 PM    comment []

Trademark vs. Search: Do you Soo...gle?. Does Geico's trademark lawsuit against Google have merit? How will the case be argued? What's the likely outcome of the trial? A mock court of trademark experts weighs in with their verdict. [www.searchenginewatch.com] 8:53:49 PM    comment []

A New Player in Desktop Search. Copernic, a well-known developer of web search tools, is entering the desktop search marketplace with the release of a new product today. [www.searchenginewatch.com] 8:53:43 PM    comment []