Category Archives: Search

Introducing Tweepz

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Jochem

During the last couple of weeks, I’ve been spending some evening-hours on a new project called Tweepz. It actually started when I noticed that it is rather difficult to find people on twitter which might be interesting to follow. Twitter’s … Continue reading →

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Searching through video’s with speech-to-text

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Jochem

Speech recognition is one of those technologies which has been around for quite a while, but has not yet found it’s way to large-scale utilization in the industry. Yes, we’ve probably all talked to a computer of the airline reservation … Continue reading →

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New exalead website and product offering

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Jochem

Yesterday Exalead released a new website, great compliment to my colleague’s who worked on this project. I think the new site is a huge improvement compared to the old one and it provides a perfect overview of Exalead’s (new) product … Continue reading →

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Leaving ilse

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Jochem

After 4,5 years at ilse media I have decided to leave the company and start with a new challenge. To be honest, it took me quite some time to make this decision. I’ve always loved working at ilse and I … Continue reading →

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Yahoo opens up

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Jochem

Yahoo’s new CTO, Ari Balogh, presented the new kind of Yahoo! at the Web2.0 expo in San Francisco. And I must say, I like it! In a nutshell, Yahoo is going to: 1) Open up their platform, enabling developers to … Continue reading →

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Why Yahoo should stay away from Google

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Jochem

Yahoo is exploring several options for the company’s future, mainly in order to maximize the stock value now that Microsoft wants to acquire them. A merge with AOL/Time Warner is mentioned as one of the alternatives. However, a couple of … Continue reading →

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Google Universal Search a step too far

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Jochem

Google has made a radical change to their search results last week. They announced a new way to present search results from the web, images, books, local and news verticals on one page: the universal search. My first thought: yeah, … Continue reading →

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Googleabout – use google without advertisements

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Jochem

I’m not sure if Google appreciates this, but their turns out to be a way to use google without advertisements. How? Very simple, just start your search at http://www.google.com/search?output=googleabout and you will see a nice and clean google. Now, let’s … Continue reading →

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New google layout, not an improvement

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Jochem

Just noticed that Google has a new layout for the webresults, they moved the links to the search verticals (images, news etc.) and added a ‘more’ link which directs you to all other verticals of Google. Furthermore, the related searches … Continue reading →

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Ask to launch adsense competitor

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Jochem

As a part of Ask Sponsored Listings (ASL), Ask will launch a new contextual advertising platform in the week of May 21st. This was confirmed by Paul Vallez, Director of Product Management. This looks like a serious attempt to compete … Continue reading →

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