On my 'knowledge notes' weblog -- for those of you who read me through RSS -- I have a link that sits directly below my snapshot in the right-hand column to "Google: Similar Pages."
When I first began blogging these 'knowledge notes' - I was intrigued by which sites Google would propose as "related" to mine. There is also a link to Technorati right below this Google link, that I am apt to check more often these days.
Today, I accidentally hit the "similar" link and found myself in the company of the following nine folks, according to Google:
Jim McGee, Matt Mower, Jeneane Sessum, danah boyd, Lee LeFever, David Gammel, Jack Vinson, David Gurteen, and Clay Shirky.
And fine 'Google cousins' they are - all excellent thinkers and awesome communicators... honored... (-:=
ZDNet UK - News - Google factors clicks into AdWords
by Matt Hines
...Google on Thursday added three new features to AdWorks, most notably a conversion tracking tool that lets customers measure how effective their paid links have been in generating site traffic and online transactions. Other upgrades included expanded matching functionality -- allowing advertisers to cash in on keyword searches related to the terms they have paid for -- and a lowered click-through threshold, meant to protect certain ads from the perception that they are less relevant than they might actually be. All three features are free to Google's estimated 150,000 AdWords customers...
Taking XML's measure |CNET.com
By David Becker, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
...Tim Bray and his colleagues in the World Wide Web Consortium had a very specific mission when they set out to define a new standard seven years ago. They needed a new format for Internet-connected systems to exchange data, a task being handled with increasing awkwardness by HyperText Markup Language...
Q: There's a lot of business interest in search now. Do you think companies would be better off focusing on user interface issues than algorithms?
A: Absolutely. There's no reason to expect that search is going to get that much better. I think where standards processes don't do well is in dealing with new technologies. The basic algorithms by which search is done have not improved much since about 1975. The only way to improve the situation is by enhancing search engines with more deterministic metadata, essentially adding knowledge management techniques that give you more information from which to draw connections. If you look at the victory of Google in the search engine business, it wasn't because they had better search techniques. It's because they deployed one key metadata value--how many pages are linked to this one--to enhance the relevancy of their results. The same concepts need to be applied to the enterprise...
Light Reading - IBM Sells Off Search Engines
IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM - message board) has sold the technology of its nascent search engine chips business to Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT) (Nasdaq: IDTI - message board), as part of the company's plan to scale back its original network processor ambitions.
Revolution - DIGITAL BRANDS: Digital Top 40
TOP 10 MOST RELIABLE BRANDS
Google - number 1
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Vivisimo Announces Release 4.0 of its Award-Winning Clustering Engine
Are we shifting our focus from Knowledge Management to Learning, or from Knowledge Management to Knowledge Work, and/or is Knowledge Work Learning?
David Buchan's post, cited below, on "learning rather than knowledge management," inspired me to seek sage Google Sets suggestions.
As an experiment I loaded "Learning" and "Knowledge Management" into Google Sets as two seed items to hopefully form a larger set. However, Google Sets returned zero additional results.
I then input "Learning", once again, and "Knowledge Work". This search yielded abundant results, including the following:
Learning, Knowledge work, Teaching, Listening, Organizations, memory, Research, perception, Problem Solving, Fun, Reasoning, communication, Planning, Psychological, attention
When I seeded a new set search with: "Knowledge Work" and "Knowledge Management" Google Sets returned the following items:
Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management, Articulation work, Institutional reflexivity
I think Jim McGee is spot on when he writes about "shifting attention from knowledge management to knowledge work. It may not sound like a big difference, but I believe it will prove to be a crucial shift in perspective."
Learning - it's not me alone
Maybe it is just my listening but more and more of the people I read daily are talking about learning rather than knowledge management. A colleague and I predicted this 18 months ago as we spoke of knowledge management being a smaller part of the whole learning piece. - David Buchan
More information from O'Reilly Network on Google Sets
"Google sets is a way to browse the web's implicit ontology. What you do is simple: you enter some terms which you already think of as instances of some class. Google then returns you what it thinks are the other instances of that class."
Have you checked out Google's Search Features lately? If not, click the above link to learn more about their new calculator function along with other items you might not be aware of such as dictionary definitions, phone book, stock quotes, etc...
Do search engines have personalities?: "Search engine indexing and ranking mechanisms favor "sunny personalities", where a naive query leads to the best news about a subject and more astute questioning is required to reveal controversies and the darker side of the queried subject. By analogy, search engines might respond with personalities more like a human subject area expert who provides more sides to a subject as well as means to evaluate the query responses. An experiment shows that 3 search engines - Google, Teoma, and AllTheWeb - exhibit dominantly "sunny" personalities on the subject distance learning but may be prompted by asking for "distance learning" AND controversy to reveal "well-balanced" resources as well as the "darker" personality of an attacker's phrase digital diploma mills."
If You Liked the Web Page, You'll Love the Ad: online publishers are beginning to sense the possibilities of having Google or Overture serve ads to their audiences.