Yahoo! needs something strong and innovative to come out of the shadow of Google, and recently Microsoft. It has taken the route of letting others build on its search results, and I think this is a good approach. [Continue]

Wikia Search is going to be interesting, even though it has got some bad reviews. It is nowhere near a full-scale search engine today, but the intention is still there. The UI might not be cool or it might not be yet as deep as Google, but its true differentiator is going to be transparency. [Continue]

Google, which is all about unique algorithms, page ranks and huge data centres, has started experimenting with using humans, that is you and me to vote for search results. At least that is what it seems as. This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. [Continue]

Dave Sifry updated his blog today with changes in the new Technorati. As I’ve blogged about before, the world has changed. Whereas folks using Technorati a couple of years ago were predominantly coming to us to search the blogosphere to surface the conversations that were most interesting to them, today they are increasingly coming to our site to get the 360 degree context of the Live Web - blogs of course, but also user-generated video, photos, podcasts, music, games and more. [Continue]