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RIP AlltheWeb

bill — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:38:50 +0000

I was sad to see that Yahoo have announced that AlltheWeb will cease to exist from April 4th and queries will be redirected to Yahoo. Of course it was inevitable given the fact that Yahoo itself is now powered by Bing (not quite yet in the UK but it’s not far away), and hardly anyone [...]

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Who’s side(wiki) are they on?

bill — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:16:47 +0000

Google have now released something they’ve been beta-testing for a while – SideWiki is a commenting system built into the latest incarnation of the Google Toolbar. Basically what is does is shows a sidebar in your browser where it lists any comments that anyone makes about your site. Systems designed to do this sort of [...]

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Adobe heading for the Big League

bill — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:57:00 +0000

The news that Adobe are buying the analytics company Omniture for $1.8 billion http://www.omniture.com/press/777 suggests that Adobe are looking to move firmly into the markets that are controlled by Google and Microsoft. This seems to be a continuation of the direction they embarked on with the aquisition of Macromedia. At that time some commentators assumed [...]

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