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<title>Sphinn / philbutler / What's New</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:47:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Reigns Supreme [Search Marketing]]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/78087</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/78087</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:47:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/78087</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google continues its supremacy, despite the clamor over emerging search engines attempting to dethrone it. These providers approach search from different perspectives (semantic, social, community-based) and present their results in fresh forms (design, layout, structure) in the hope that their new package will appeal more to the masses. However, it's apparent that search dominance is as much about branding, popularity, and financial backing as it is about relevance or looks.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google, Microsoft and Yahoo - The Trinitarian Formula of Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60082</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60082</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:05:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60082</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the name of Google, and of Microsoft and of Yahoo!a4 Amen!This is what the search world looks like since a few years. We fail to talk about something else when it comes to search engines. Even when pretty faces like Powerset and hakia dare to come on stage, they are still reported to the holy triad of search, still compared, still dissected and still judged based on what we already describe as &quot;the top three search engines.&quot; No one can compete against the three, they say. No one can even dream to come close to such market reach and popularity.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hakia To The Rescue?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60071</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60071</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:13:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60071</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As the search saga continues, rumor has it Microsoft is just about to announce it did a little shopping and acquired Powerset - one of the leaders in natural language search. On the other hand, Microsoft's future plans of buying Yahoo's search functionalities no longer seem dead and buried, as they've teamed up with billionaire Carl Icahn and re working hard on convincing Yahoo's board to choose the MS path.An older post, but the race is heating up!<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Data Portability And The Future Of The Web]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56639</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56639</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:11:57 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56639</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Open source could be the last bastion of Web 2.0. Which side of the fence do you fall on?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Has hakia Evolved Beyond Pigeons?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55473</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55473</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:03:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55473</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Raving news about hakia's so-called &quot;credible online health search&quot; proliferated the Web in April. Since then, a deafening silence threatened to condemn hakia to the darkest corner of the Web, but luckily enough they had some more coverage with the launch of their semantic API. Both attempts at news left hakia in its cone of shadow, where even the company itself condemns its services.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Free SEO For Wordpress 2.5 Ebook]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47446</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47446</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 12:07:10 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47446</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Being something of a pureist Web 2.0 guy, I have criticized SEO quite a bit in my blogging career. As most of us find out sooner or later however, most professions have varying tiers of professionalism and excellence. This is true of search engine optimization as well. SEO, taken to its most excellent conclusion is really about truly optimizing sites for content, structure and essentially honesty.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[No Braining Digg And Others]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47445</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47445</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 11:55:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47445</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Delving into the mysteries of the Web for the 10,000th time, I decided to go all out transparent and also help a friend today. You see, all bloggers and social networking fools use essentially the same strategies to get what they write notices. Whether the subject is super informative news or simply some refined spam, the methodologies are the same. So, for this one post, let's see what it takes to make a story successful.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO for Wordpress 2.5 Blogs : New eBook]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47245</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47245</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:53:57 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47245</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO done as it should be is a very helpful tool for developers. I recently reviewed an SEO primer in the form of an eBook that is superlatively helpful and most of all honest. Search engine optimization, at least the honest and professional version, helps not only site developers and users but the search engines themselves obviously. Though content is still king, if no one sees it, it is nothing.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Destruction of Knowledge - Porn On Wikipedia]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45332</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45332</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:12:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45332</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone scanning the pages of my articles these last 2 years will find one overriding common denominator - I admire excellence. This article is about an underlying certainty resident in the world even when considering the most excellent things we find - that is negativity transgressing, invading and even attempting to destroy anything of excellence.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iceberg - The MP3 of Enterprise Platforms]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44903</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44903</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:20:47 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44903</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Every developer out there want to make a tool that some thousands of users will be enamored with, but few really offer viable solutions. As for business tools, most of these are either so expensive or so complicated to use that few have the stomach for them unless they are a necessity. According to a story I read on Infoworld , Forrester predicts that the enterprise &quot;mashup&quot; market will reach $700 million by 2013.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Crap versus Quality at Techcrunch]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36194</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36194</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:23:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36194</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It is about time someone had the nerve to call BS on TC. We have to expect more from the best or we go nowhere. A recent article on TC did no justice to either the author or a great startup because of shabby journalism from the world's greatest tech blog.Ask for more!<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MyBlogLog, Whata4s Wrong With You?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31451</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31451</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:14:02 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31451</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;For some, it's the glory; for others it's the danger. Still for others it's the way members of the opposite sex find them a little more appealing.&quot;After reading the above sentence, and you can all enjoy more pearls like this on the Help section at MyBlogLog, I couldn't help but drawing a few possible conclusions:I lost my sense of humor or I lack the language versatility to grasp the deep meanings hidden in this sentence.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hakia Unleashes a4MOa4 - Meet Others Via Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11895</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11895</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:41:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11895</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hakia is rolling out yet another aspect of their semantic search technology today. MO (or meet others) exhibits another interesting aspect of &quot;search&quot; by allowing people to meet other people entertaining the same queries. By adding this P2P social element to search, hakia is effectively spreading semantics (or meaning) across a much wider spectrum and toward true answers and understanding. Users simply click on the MO icon after making a query and they are taken into rooms where people have searched for similar interests.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reaching Web 3.0]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10351</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10351</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:37:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10351</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When will we arrive at Web 3.0? I really had no idea there were so many theories until I went to my old standby Wikipedia to get some ideas for what we have in store. Over the last year or so I have probably loosely used the term Web 3.0 to describe one great innovation or other a dozen times. For me, Web 3.0 has, to a large extent, been a term to differentiate technologies. I expect this is true on many blogs and in the minds of people everywhere on the Web. In the end, Web 3.0 will be more than the sum of all its parts - it will be mostly the activity of people across those parts. I<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nike Does Business 3.0]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9459</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9459</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:09:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9459</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Traditional business continues to migrate to the Web. Nike+ has refined consumer engagement to a fine point in creating community enhanced by a high tech tool. Sometimes the most elemental additions can add the most value for users - especially in niches with clear targets. Nike has done it right in this case - should others follow? What will this do to ad revenue in general? Web 3.0 is already here - it  just need tweaking.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Understanding hakia - Astro Versus Scooby Doo]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8332</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8332</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:04:10 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8332</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Explaining and understanding hakia and other semantic search engines has been a little more than tough for developers and potential users these past few months. Readers and users are not dense, but perhaps they are impatient and a little ADD. Developers, especially the good ones, spare no text or video to explain these complex and often abstract creations. Still, most visitors (to hakia in particular) are not willing to devote more than a few seconds to evaluate the potential of this extraordinary development.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Submission error!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8331</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8331</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:33:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8331</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There was an error in submitting this discussion, perhaps discussing usability for new users who are up 18 hours is appropriate? In any event - the learning curve has been surmounted.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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