Dec
23
Search in 2005 … and 2006?
Filed Under Search
John Battelle, former editor of Wired magazine, is the leading commentator on search. In November he published his good read The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. In the concluding chapter on the future of search he says:
As every engineer in the search field loves to […]
By Nick Holmes, 23 December 2005
Dec
23
Google’s steps towards world domination (2)
Filed Under Search
Here’s the list.
Web search:
Google
Google Image Search
Google News
Google University Search
Google Blog Search beta
Goods and services:
Froogle beta
Google Base beta
Maps and directions; local businesses:
Google Local / Google Maps beta (map data from Tele Atlas; business listings from Yell.com™)
Book content:
Google Book Search beta (previously Google print)
Scholarly papers:
Google Scholar beta
Your desktop:
Google Desktop beta
By Nick Holmes, 23 December 2005
Dec
23
Legal process outsourcing
Filed Under Outsourcing
A valuable post on Offshoring from Joy London’s Excited Utterances blog, pointing to the trend in legal process outsourcing (LPO), particularly to India, and providing links to the main players:
With the increasing acceptance of India as a preferred offshoring destination, a large number of non-CRM and non-transaction related services are being offshored. Among these, a […]
By Nick Holmes, 23 December 2005
Dec
19
Links and law
Filed Under Internet law
Tim Berners-Lee, father of the web, has published his first blog post as a member of the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) blog. DIG explores technical, institutional, and public policy questions necessary to advance the development of global, decentralized information environments.
He points to his Design Issues writings as the home of his previous “blog”. It is […]
By Nick Holmes, 19 December 2005
