Try the Alpha release of search engine Feedeep!

May 28th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Try the Alpha version of Feedeep!

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Sorry, Search.Me is already taken (so is SearchMe)

May 28th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Montenegro <with the country code .me>–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The .ME Registry announced today a new round of auctions to be held on NameJet® this June. Fifteen of the Registry’s premium names will be available. The auction starts June 5, but auction backorders are being collected right now at Me.NameJet.com.

“We are proud to partner with NameJet for our latest auction,” said Predrag Lesic, executive director of the .ME Registry. “They provide award-winning auction technology to customers in an easy-to-use Web platform.”

“With more than a quarter-million dot-ME domains now registered, and almost seven million indexed pages on Google, dot-ME is proving to be one of the most popular ccTLDs in the world,” said NameJet’s General Manager, Steve Brown. “This auction gives our customers a great opportunity to acquire these premium dot-ME names that were not previously available.”

From June 5-8, bid on Copy.Me, Publish.Me, Catch.Me

From June 6-9, bid on Share.Me, Beer.Me, Trust.Me

From June 7-10, bid on Network.Me, Live.Me, Kick.Me

From June 8-11, bid on Face.Me, David.Me, Invite.Me

From June 9-12, bid on Teach.Me, Remind.Me, Gallery.Me

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To find out more about .ME domains and where you can register, visit www.Domain.Me.

About the .ME Registry:

.ME Registry (the d.b.a. of doMEn, d.o.o.) was chosen by the government of Montenegro to operate the new .ME domain name extension.  Me-Net is located in Montenegro, and its principals have been leaders in the ICT sector in Montenegro, including the privatization of its largest ISP. GoDaddy.com is located in the USA and is the world’s largest domain name registrar, according to Netcraft Ltd. Afilias Limited is headquartered in Ireland and is a leading registry services provider, supporting more than 14 million domains worldwide.

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The Future of Search according to Jurvetson

May 28th, 2009 by Guest Author
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2009-05-28_0901This links to a long post about a long video, but they are both very educational.  Thanks to Sol for the great content!

Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture capital firm. Jurvetson, at last week’s 11th annual Churchill Top Tech Trends event, spoke about a trend toward decentralized search which could dramatically change how many of us think about federated search. WebWare covered the event and discussed the trend:

Venture capital whiz-kid Steve Jurvetson gave an impassioned pitch for this trend, which he called, “The triumph of the distributed Web.” He said the aggregate power of distributed human activity will trump centralized control. His main point was that Google, and other search engines that analyze the Web and links, are much less useful than a (theoretical) search engine that knows not what people have linked to (as Google does), but rather what pages are open on people’s browsers at the moment that people are searching. “All the problems of search would be solved if search relevance was ranked by what browsers were displaying,” he said.

Jurvetson believes that the future is “federated search,” in which the Web’s users don’t just execute search queries, they participate in building the index by the very act of searching, immediately and directly.

Watch Jurvetson speak about “the Triumph of the Distributed Web.”

Sol Lederman and his brother Abe Lederman (DeepWeb – an AltSearchEngines sponsor) discuss the video in a post on his blog Federated Search Blog here.

Daniel Tunkelang adds his 2 cents:

I wish I could have been there to challenge Jurvetson on some of his points–and that I could refer to a transcript to rebut them. I cover some of this on my blog:

http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/04/05/google-already-knows-what-youre-thinking

I also think that readers interested in crowd-sourcing relevance should take a look at the just-launched Topsy, which I blogged about today:

http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/05/27/topsy-tippling-the-stream-of-conversations